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The Book Thief (CD, Boxed set, Unabridged)
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The Book Thief (CD, Boxed set, Unabridged)
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List price R529
Loot Price R358
Discovery Miles 3 580
You Save R171 (32%)
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'It's just a small story, really, about among other things: a girl,
some words, an accordionist, a Jewish fist fighter, and quite a lot
of thievery ...' Narrated in the all-knowing matter-of-fact voice
of Death, witnessing the story of the citizens of Molching: When
nine-year-old Liesel arrives outside the boxlike house of her new
foster parents at 33 Himmel Street, she refuses to get out of the
car. Liesel has been separated from her parents - 'Kommunists' -
for ever, and at the burial of her little brother, she steals a
gravedigger's instruction manual which she can't read. It is the
beginning of her illustrious career. In the care of the Hubermans,
Liesel befriends blond-haired Rudy Steiner, her neighbour obsessed
with Jesse Owens, and the mayor's wife, who hides from despair in
her library. Together Liesel and Rudy steal books - from Nazi book
burning piles, from the mayor's library, from the rich people for
whom her fostermother does the ironing. In time, they take in a
Jewish boxer, Max, who reads with Liesel in the basement. . By
1943, the Allied bombs are falling, and the sirens begin to wail.
Liesel shares out her books in the air-raid shelters. But one day
in the life of Himmel street, the wail of the sirens comes too late
... A life-changing tale of the cruel twists of fate and the
coincidences on which all our lives hinge, this is also a joyous
look at how books can nourish the soul. Its uplifting ending will
make all listeners weep.
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