The Book Thief
Drama
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War
Narrated by Death, The Book Thief is the story of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who given up by her mother to live with Hans and Rosa Hubermann
in the small town of Molching in 1939, shortly before World War II. On
their way to Molching, Liesel's younger brother Werner dies, and she is
traumatized, experiencing nightmares about him for months. Hans is a
gentle man who brings her comfort and helps her learn to read, starting
with a book Liesel took from the cemetery where her brother was buried.
Liesel befriends a neighborhood boy, Rudy Steiner,
who falls in love with her. At a book burning, Liesel realizes that her
father was persecuted for being a Communist, and that her mother was
likely killed by the Nazis for the same crime. She is seen stealing a
book from the burning by the mayor's wife Ilsa Hermann, who later invites Liesel to read in her library.
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