The Book Thief

Uncorrected Proof. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 584. Illustrated wraps. Originally published as a trade paperback by Picador, Australia (2005), it was followed by the US Knopf edition (2006).

Author's fourth novel. One of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book (South East Asia and South Pacific), the Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year, the National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature, as well as the 2007 Michael L. Printz Honor for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.

The figure of Death relates the story of Liesel, a German girl whose book-stealing and storytelling talents help sustain her foster family and the Jewish man they are hiding through the horrors of World War II. Basis for the 2013 movie of the same name directed by Brian Percival and starring Emily Watson, Sophie Nélisse and Geoffrey Rush. "A novel of breathtaking scope, masterfully told." –The Guardian