Prev entry.
« 300

Next entry.
Chris is A Big Loser »

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Friday, April 20th, 2007

This book was really good.

The Book Thief is narrated by death, which is only suitable as a lot of dying happens in the book. The death is only suitable as well considering it’s set in the early 1940s in Nazi Germany. The scenes are pretty vivid, but in a funny pastel that draws you in without you realising it. All the death is laid out so casually.

Liesel, our leading lady, starts at only 9 years old at the beginning of the book has quite a few people die and dissapear on her. The story that stretches out between her and her foster parents, the jewish fist fighter and the scruffy boy next door goes from mundane to grisly to humourous to heart-breaking, but all in shades of grey. Grey, with snow and dirty footprints. It weighs you down as you read it (not just because it’s a pretty hefty book).

It’s a book that weighs heavily up on the power of words; stirring and hateful from Hitler, caring well wisely placed from her Liesel’s foster father, desperate and shaky from the man hidden in the basement. It really does place you in Germany with the humiliating parades of wiry emaciated jews and controlling horrors of bombings.

I couldn’t put it down, a definite page-turner. How it manages to be so engaging is beyond me. I think it might be the humanity of it all, it’s imperfect imperfections, that seem too true and real to be fictional.

9 and a half tear-streaked bomb victims out of ten.

Please note individual items are the those of the autor, not Pith Records. Don't blame us.
This entry hereby entered into our archives by Will at the hour of 1:22 am on this very Friday, April 20th, our year of 2007. Duly filed under Literary Reviews, in accordance with standard practices. Interested parties may follow responses through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

WordPress database error: [Table './pith_xmb1/wp_comments' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed]
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = '138' AND comment_approved = '1' ORDER BY comment_date

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.