7/2/2023 0 Comments The book thief author![]() ![]() Author Zusak has said that The Book Thief was not intended as a young adult novel. Yet Liesel, the main character of The Book Thief is not Jewish, and neither are most of the supporting characters. The Book Thief has won the National Jewish Book Award, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award for best Jewish young adult book of 2006.His father, a house-painter like one of the main characters in The Book Thief (Hans Hubermann), was born in Austria. Born in Sydney Australia in 1975, Zusak’s mother is a native of Germany. Marcus Zusak has authored four young adult novels. ![]() The narrator refers to Liesel as “the book thief” because she steals a handful of books throughout the course of the novel. The novel is narrated by “Death,” characterized not as the usual grim reaper, but a sympathetic guardian of the souls of the deceased. The Book Thief is the story of Liesel Meminger, a girl living in Nazi Germany whose foster parents provide refuge for a young Jew, Max Vandenberg, by hiding him in their basement. ![]()
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