<b>This anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller features pages of bonus content, including marked-up manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook.<br><br>“Life-changing.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b><br> <br> <i>When Death has a story to tell, you listen.</i><br><br> It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.<br><br> Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who 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. <br><br> In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of <i>I Am the Messenger,</i> has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.<br><br> “Deserves a place on the same shelf with <i>The Diary of a Young Girl </i>by Anne Frank.” —<i>USA Today</i><br><br><b>DON’T MISS <i>BRIDGE OF CLAY</i>, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE <i>THE BOOK THIEF</i>.</b>
