was nine years that Liesel began his brilliant career as a thief. Sure, he was hungry and stealing apples, but what he cared about were the books really, and rather than steal them saved. The first was dropped in the snow beside the tomb where he had just buried his brother. They were going to Molching, near Monaco, where they were waiting for their adoptive parents. The second one took him out to fire one of the many fires lit by the Nazis. They liked to burn everything: houses, shops, synagogues, people ... Slowly, over time they picked up a fortnight, and when he gave his story to the paper when asked just the written word had begun to mean not only something, but everything. Maybe it happened when he saw for the first time the library of the mayor's wife, an entire room filled with books? When he got in his way, Max Vandenburg, a former boxer wrestler but still, carrying the "Mein Kampf" and endless suffering? When he began to read for others in the bomb shelters? When slipped into a column of Jews on their way to Dachau? But perhaps these questions were idle, and what really mattered was the chain of pages that linked many people labeled as Jewish, Aryan or subversive, and instead were only poor creatures tied by ghosts, secrets and silences.
The author
Markus Zusak, Australian writer, was born in Sydney in 1975. His first book is "The girl who saved the books." He currently lives in Sydney, married and father of a daughter. Surf.
Title: The girl who saved the books
Original title: The Book Thief
Author: Markus Zusak
Publisher: Frassinelli
Publication: 2009
ISBN: 8876849432
Pages: 576
Price: € 18.50
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