"Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me". This is Death, narrator of The Book Thief, dispassionate, ironic, full of wry humour. Set in Nazi Germany, this is the story of Liesel Meminger, left by her mother to be fostered by Hans and Rosa Huberman. It is a story of ordinary Germans struggling to make a living under an increasingly despotic regime. Funny, moving, tragic - read it now.
(Ferelith Hordon - bwl 38 February 2007 ) |
