Hands down one of the most unique novels I've read in years.
In many ways it tells the story of WWII in Germany but from the aspect of a young girl and ...an angel of death?
Sounds way new-agey to describe but it's not.
Liesel goes to live with foster parents in a mid-size German town just before the war breaks out. She learns to love her new parents, misses her dead brother, makes friends and steals books. The war starts, her father goes off to the Army, he comes back, they shelter a Jew in the basement and she steals books.
This is a remarkable novel, really practically indescribable. Can't even begin to say how remarkable it is -- lyrical and plain, magical and down-to-earth.
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