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Book Description:
It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery....
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist-books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.
中文简介：
9岁小女孩莉赛尔和弟弟在二战战乱中被迫送到寄宿家庭，但弟弟不幸死在途中，莉赛尔在弟弟冷清的葬礼后偷了一本掘墓工人手冊，为的是紀念自己永远失去的家庭。寄养家庭位于慕尼黑贫困城区，大人彼此仇恨咒骂，老师狠毒无情，战火时时威胁人命。莉赛尔每晚抱着掘墓工人手册入睡，恶梦不断。养父为了让她安眠，于是为她朗诵手册，並开始教她识字。
学会识字开始读书的莉赛尔，尽管吃不饱穿不暖，却发现了一项比食物更让她难以抗拒的東西——书，她忍不住开始偷书，用偷来的书继续学习认字。从此她进入了文字的奇妙世界，让她熬过了现实的苦难，也不可思议地帮助了周围同样承受苦难的人，安慰了每顆惶惶不安的心，潜移默化改变了原本粗鄙的性情。
对比战场上的杀戮，莉赛尔借由阅读与文字所散发的力量，让死神惊讶地睁大了眼睛，一面收取战场上的灵魂，一面思索人性的深奥：为什么人类一面展现残酷的杀戮，一面又有发自内心的关爱呢？
About Author:
Kim Edwards is the author of a short story collection, The Secrets of a Fire King, which was an alternate for the 1998 PEN/Hemingway Award, and has won both a Whiting Award and the Nelson Algren Award. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she currently teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.
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