Edgar: Book Club: “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak

Join us in a discussion of “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak for our September book club.

It is 1939 in Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother’s graveside, Liesel’s life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger’s Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel’s foster family hides a Jewish person in their basement, Liesel’s world is both opened up, and closed down.

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