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Read Around Allendale: "The Book Thief" |
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Date:
Tuesday, November 10
11:00 AM
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Description:
Stop by at The Grand Coney for a book discussion of "The Book Thief" (and, of course, some food). This meeting will be led by Library Director, Rob Bristow.
"The Book Thief" is a 2006 best-selling novel by Markus Zusak, and a 2007 Michael L. Printz Award Honor book. Although American publisher Knopf has marketed the 552-page book, set in Nazi Germany, as a young-adult novel, it was originally intended 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 wartime Germany, she yearns to escape viz reading. Her foster father Hans helps her learn to read, and Liesel finds more 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:
Grand Coney
Off Campus Location
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