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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 2005

566 pages

Narrated by Death, the story follows Liesel Meminger, a girl sent to live with a foster family in Nazi Germany. She steals books, shares them with a Jewish man hiding in the basement, and grows up amid bombs, loss and small acts of kindness.

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Coming of Age, Found Family, War Fiction, Melancholic

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