Markus Zusak’s seminal novel “The Book Thief” is a potent work of Holocaust fiction for young adults that should be read alongside “The Diary of Anne Frank” and Elie Wiesel’s “Night.” Like any film ...

Running time/rating: 2:11, PG-13 for some violence and intense depiction of thematic material. Rarely has a story about an angelic schoolgirl been narrated by Death. But such is the case in the dark ...

Narrated, like the international best-seller upon which it is based, by Death (Roger Allam), “The Book Thief” has been derided as Holocaust kitsch by some. But I dare you not to be swept up in this ...

Rarely has a story about an angelic schoolgirl been narrated by Death. But such is the case in the dark, yet wondrous Nazi Germany-set "The Book Thief." ''Here's a small fact: You are going to die," ...

Rarely has a story about an angelic schoolgirl been narrated by Death. But such is the case in the dark, yet wondrous Nazi Germany-set "The Book Thief." "Here's a small fact: You are going to die," we ...

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NPR's John Ydstie interviews Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, a novel set in World War II Germany with Death himself as the narrator. The book tells the story of Liesel Meminger, a young girl ...

Children take on the hardships of living in Nazi Germany in "The Book Thief." Everett Collection Sort of a young-adult version of “The Reader,’’ the low-key, English-language coming-of-age drama “The ...

The Book Thief is a 2005 award-winning historical fiction written by Markus Zusak, published by Picador. The novel is set in Molching, Germany, during World War II and follows the story of Liesel and ...