书名：The Book Thief 偷书贼

作者：Markus Zusak

出版社：Knopf

出版时间：2007

语种：英文

ISBN：9780375842207

商品尺寸：13.3 x 3.2 x 20.3 cm

包装：平装

页数：576

The Book Thief《偷书贼》是澳大利亚畅销作家马克斯·苏萨克创作的一部反战文学作品，2006年被亚马逊网络书店评为年度选书。33岁的作者马克斯·苏萨克在平静描述中，将亲情、友情、爱情、战争、死亡、生存、欺骗、诚实这许多熟悉的字眼以完全不熟悉的方式展现出来。马克斯以自己的方式，歌颂着书籍和文字的力量。正是文字，将人性之美之善之丑之恶照得雪亮。推荐理由：1.曾登《纽约时报》青少年文学排行榜榜首，发行三个月销量就超越百万；2.获奖无数，如美国图书馆协会Pintz奖，2006年Book Sense儿童文学类年度选书，犹太图书馆小说奖，澳大利亚图书产业奖等等；3.关注社会热点问题，同时是一部优秀的青少年文学作品，适合各个年龄层的读者；4.英文原版图书，摒除了翻译过程中的语言转变，更加原汁原味。It’s just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery… Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel 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 before he is marched to Dachau. This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to feed the soul.Reviews:“Unsettling, thought-provoking, life-affirming, triumphant and tragic, this is a novel of breath-taking scope, masterfully told... A wonderful page-turner.” — The Guardian“The Book Thiefis unsettling and unsentimental, yet ultimately poetic. Its grimness and tragedy run through the reader’s mind like a black-and-white movie, bereft of the colors of life. Zusak may not have lived under Nazi domination, but The Book Thief deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank and Elie Wiesel’s Night. It seems poised to become a classic.”— USA Today“Zusak doesn’t sugarcoat anything, but he makes his ostensibly gloomy subject bearable the same way Kurt Vonnegut did in Slaughterhouse-Five: with grim, darkly consoling humor.”—Time Magazine“The Book Thief will be appreciated for Mr. Zusak’s audacity, also on display in his earlier I Am the Messenger. It will be widely read and admired because it tells a story in which books become treasures. And because there’s no arguing with a sentiment like that.”— New York Times

九岁小女孩莉赛尔和弟弟在战乱中被迫送到寄养家庭，但弟弟不幸死在旅途中，莉赛尔在弟弟冷清的丧礼后偷了一本掘墓工人的手册，为的是要纪念自己永远失去的家庭。寄养家庭位在慕尼黑凋蔽贫困的区域，大人彼此仇恨咒骂，老师狠毒无情，战火时时威胁人命。莉赛尔每晚抱着掘墓工人手册入睡，恶梦不断。养父为了让她安眠，于是为她朗诵手册内容，并开始教她识字。学会认字进而开始读书的莉赛尔，尽管生活艰苦，吃不饱穿不暖，却发现了一项比食物更让她难以抗拒的东西——书，她忍不住开始偷书，用偷来的书继续学习认字。从此莉赛尔进入了文字的奇妙世界，让她熬过了现实的苦难，也不可思议地帮助了周围同样承受苦难的人。The Book Thiefcenters around the life of Liesel Meminger, a ten-year-old girl living in Germany during World War II. Liesel’s experiences are narrated by Death, who describes both the beauty and destruction of life in this era.After her brother’s death, Liesel arrives in a distraught state at the home of her new foster parents, Hans and Rosa Hubermann. During her time there, she is exposed to the horror of the Nazi regime and struggles to find a way to preserve the innocence of her childhood in the midst of her destructive surroundings. As the political situation in Germany deteriorates, her foster parents hide a Jewish man named Max, putting the family in danger. Hans, who has developed a close relationship with Liesel, teaches her to read in secret. Recognizing the power of writing and sharing the written word, Liesel begins to not only steal books the Nazi party is looking to destroy, but also write her own stories and share the power of language with Max. As Liesel copes with the trauma of her past and the violent horrors of the war-torn world around her, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, the formation of a new family, and mostly, her life as a book thief.

Markus Zusak马克斯·苏萨克是澳大利亚著名小说家，著有许多畅销全球的青年小说读物。其作品广受全世界读者的青睐，被翻译为四十几种语言。他的代表作《偷书贼》曾经在《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜上停留十年之久。Markus Zusak was born in 1975 and is the author of five books, including the international bestseller,The Book Thief, which is translated into more than forty languages. First released in 2005,The Book Thief has spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, and still remains there to this day. In 2014, Zusak received the American Library Association’s Margaret Edwards award for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature, for his body of work ranging fromThe Underdog up toThe The Book Thief.

DEATH AND CHOCOLATEFirst the colors.Then the humans.That’s usually how I see things.Or at least, how I try.*** HERE IS A SMALL FACT ***You are going to die.I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that’s only the A’s. Just don’t ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.AFOREMENTIONED factDoes this worry you?I urge you—don’t be afraid.I’m nothing if not fair.—Of course, an introduction.A beginning.Where are my manners?I could introduce myself properly, but it’s not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away. At that moment, you will be lying there (I rarely find people standing up). You will be caked in your own body. There might be a discovery; a scream will dribble down the air. The only sound I’ll hear after that will be my own breathing, and the sound of the smell, of my footsteps.The question is, what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying?Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see--the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.