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Read Around Allendale: "The Book Thief" |
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Date:
Wednesday, November 4
10:30 AM
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Description:
Much of "The Book Thief" focuses on literary censorship in WWII Germany. Stop by the Allendale Library for a discussion with Gary Stark, GVSU professor and author of "Banned in Berlin".
"The Book Thief" is a 2006 best-selling novel by Markus Zusak, and a 2007 Printz Award Honor Book. Although American publisher Knopf has marketed the 552 page book set in Nazi Germany as a young-adult novel, it has originally intended and published in Zusak's native Australia specifically for adults.
"The Book Thief" is set in Nazi Germany. Beginning in 1939, it focuses on a German girl, Liesel, who is sent by her mother to live with foster parents in a small town near Munich. As Liesel learns to cope with her new environment, all the pains she has endured, and the extreme unhappiness of pre-war and war time in Germany, she yearns to escape via reading. Her foster father Hans helps her learn to read and Liesel finds books here and there - in a snowy graveyard, in a Nazi book-burning, and inside the local mayor's library. While the toll of WWII, Allied bombing, and Nazi brutality increases, Liesel's world starts to crumble, but words and reading sustain her. |
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Contact Information:
LeaAnn Tibbe (tibbel@gvsu.edu) |
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Campus:
Allendale Campus
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Location:
Allendale Library
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