Book Review This is primarily a novel about the Nazi Germany during the Second World War years. It tells the story of a young girl named Liesel who loses her mother and brother when is she is only 9 years old. Her brother dies and her mother is taken away by Hitler’s people as she is a communist. Liesel is handed over to Hans and Rosa Huberman. She is the titular book thief and the first book is stolen during her brother’s funeral. Symbolically, the book is A Gravedigger’s Handbook . Her foster father will teach her how to read and she will steal a few more books eventually. Hitler’s Nazis burnt books which were seen as opposed to their interests. The Nazis created their own history, myths and illusions. Hitler was a powerful orator who hated one particular community of people whom he sent to their death brutally. Death was ubiquitous in Hitler’s Germany. No wonder, Death is the narrator of Markus Zusak’s novel. Hitler towers behind in the background unseen an
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