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A story in which Death itself is the narrator. A novel in which everything is unusual - from composition to language, and everything is permeated with a sense of the inescapable anxiety of everyday existence in the "world that has fallen off the screw" and a huge, all-consuming love for books. Germany under the iron heel of Nazism - through the eyes of a little girl... The Book Thief became a major literary event of 2006 and a New York Times bestseller. It has been called a "challenge novel", a "triumph" and a "literary gem", compared to "The Diary of Anne Frank" and admired by the author's "creative audacity", and was filmed in 2013. This is an amazing, “humane” book that will be of interest to everyone regardless of age and will not leave anyone indifferent! Translator Mezin N.