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The book uses its length effectively its duration is not oppressive, but it's a significant and noticeable part of the reading experience, a stretch that operates to remind readers of the exhausting length of Liesel's own experience in a Germany of danger, disorder, and death. They secrete Max in the basement, where he becomes reliant on Liesel for his small glimpses of the outside world, and she in turn becomes reliant on him as something precious that has been saved where others have been lost. Her family is committing a bigger crime-they are hiding a Jew, the son of the man who saved Hans' life in the first World War. She finds power in words, especially words in the books that she steals-from the bottom of a conflagration of unacceptable books the townspeople are burning, from the library of the mayor's wife. The patient tutelage of Hans, himself a laboring reader, helps Liesel learn to read by helping her sort out the world of her book's words, the book that is her only connection, save her nightmares, to her lost brother. Despite her losses, she grows to love her gentle foster father, Hans Hubermann, and to tolerate her hot-tempered foster mother, who addresses Liesel only in foul-mouthed imprecations ( Saumensch, 'swine,' being a favorite), and she also makes a firm friend in flashy but loyal classmate Rudy Steiner. The narrator first spots Liesel when he takes her brother, as her family travels on a train to Munich where the children are to be put into foster care (their mother, a Communist, hopes to save her children from the fate she anticipates under Hitler) at her brother's graveside she begins her career as a book thief, pocketing The Grave-Digger's Handbook. I was still getting over Stalin, in Russia.' He describes his liberation of often tortured souls in tones ranging from the matter-of-fact to the merciful, reserving his pity for the survivors, as in the case of Liesel. Zusak's powerful yet nimble writing ensures this conceit never becomes a gimmick, staying a penetrating yet poignant perspective our narrator is never overly personified, but even he tires of the needless extra labors humanity gleefully throws his way, complaining about the Third Reich because 'in all honesty. Its focus is Liesel Meminger ('one of those perpetual survivors-an expert at being left behind'), nine at the start of the story in 1939, and its narrator is death. publication of the inventive and humane I Am the Messenger (BCCB 1/05) by this Australian author now he's turned his gifted pen to the daunting yet oft-treated subject of Germany during World War II, and the result is a book of heartbreaking grief and tenderness that earns every page of its substantial length.

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