I read this book last year in Catalan as an optative reading. I was interested in this book because lots of people had recommended to me I wanted to see if it talked about the WWII (it does, but very summarized, with no much details) .
Since the start we know that the narrator is Death. Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl was given up by her mother because she couldn't take care property of her daughter. Hans and Rosa Hubermann adopted the girl in Molching. On their way to Molching, Liesel's brother died, and she get very traumatized. Hans was very kind brought her comfort and helps her learn to read. Her first book was about burials. Liesel met Rudy Steiner, who fell in love with her. When she went to a book burning, realized that her parents were killed for being Communists. Then she stole a book from there but the mayor's wife saw her and later invited Liesel to read in her library.
Hans hid a Jew named Max in his basement. Liesel and Max became close friends, and he wrote Liesel two stories about their friendship reproduced in the story. Then Hans was drafted into the military when the war was very hard, and soon Max marched towards the concentration camp at Dachau. Liesel lost hope and began to disdain the written word, and learnt that Hitler's propaganda was blame for the war and the Holocaust and the death of her family, but Ilsa encourages her to write. Liesel wrote her life story in the Hubermann’s basement, and fortunatelly she survived an air raid that killed everyone on her block. Liesel and Max survived the war. She continued her life since she died at an old age.
I like the plot of the story but in my opinion the historical part is missing in the novel so I recommend the book only to people who want to move, because it is a quite hard story.
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