Death can sure spin an enthralling yarn, even in humbling circumstances.
Though he is busy in Nazi Germany, Death still makes time to chronicle the adventures of a young girl who begins her career as a book thief on the way to her new foster home outside of Munich. Liesel Meminger learns to read with the help of her foster-father as a comforting activity to quell her nightmares that soon develops as a way to cope with the chaotic realities of war and fascist society. Other story lines weave in seamlessly with Liesel's which gives the reader greater context of the war without fully leaving our protagonist on Himmel Street. This unconventional perspective and setting of this story provides a refreshing, but no less devastating, picture of World War II from the experience of ordinary Germans. The wide range of characters are all carefully and often poetically defined no matter their position on the moral compass. It is no wonder Death utters, "I am haunted by humans."
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