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Book Description:
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.
中文簡介：
9歲小女孩莉賽爾和弟弟在戰亂中被迫送到寄養家庭，但弟弟不幸死在旅途中，莉賽爾在弟弟冷清的喪禮后偷了一本掘墓工人的手冊，為的是要紀念自己永遠失去的家庭。
寄養家庭位在慕尼黑凋蔽貧困的區域，大人彼此仇恨咒罵，老師狠毒無情，戰火時時威脅人命。莉賽爾每晚抱著掘墓工人手冊入睡，惡夢不斷。養父為了讓她安眠，于是為她朗誦手冊內容，并開始教她識字。
學會認字進而開始讀書的莉賽爾，盡管生活艱苦，吃不飽穿不暖，卻發現了一項比食物更讓她難以抗拒的東西——書，她忍不住開始偷書，用偷來的書繼續學習認字。從此莉賽爾進入了文字的奇妙世界，讓她熬過了現實的苦難，也不可思議地幫助了周圍同樣承受苦難的人：讀書給躲在養父家地下室的猶太人聽，在空襲時為躲入防空洞中的街坊鄰居朗讀故事，安慰了每顆惶惶不安的心，潛移默化改變了原本粗鄙的性情。
對照著戰場上萬人之間的爭奪殘殺，莉賽爾藉由閱讀與文字所散發的力量，讓死神驚訝地睜大了眼睛，一面收取戰場上的靈魂，一面思索人性的深奧：為什么人類一面展現殘酷的殺戮，一面又有發自內心的關愛呢？
多年以后，死神前去迎接莉賽爾的靈魂。死神坐在喧囂的大馬路旁，忍不住感嘆道：“人哪！人性縈繞我的心頭不去！人性怎能同時間如此光明，又如此邪惡！”
About Author:
Australian author Markus Zusak was born in Sydney in 1975, At the age of 30, Zusak has considered as one of today's most innovative and poetic novelists. With the publication of The Book Thief, he is now being dubbed a 'literary phenomenon' by Australian and U.S. critics. Zusak is the award-winning author of four previous books for young adults: The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, Getting the Girl, and I Am the Messenger, recipient of a 2006 Printz Honor for excellence in young adult literature. He lives in Sydney.
馬克斯·蘇薩克，1975年出生于悉尼，30歲時已成為當代澳大利亞文學界獲獎最多、著作最豐、讀者群最廣的作家。迄今已出版：《輸家》（The Urlderdog）、《與魯本·烏爾夫戰斗》（The Figtlting RLJberl Wolfe，美國圖書館協會青少年類最佳圖書）、《得到那女孩》（Gettinlg the Girl）、《報信者》（I Am theMessenger，澳大利亞兒童圖書協會年度最佳圖書獎）。
伴隨著《偷書人》的出版，他被澳大利亞和美國的評論家稱之為“文學現象”。
(改編自金路堂網絡書店）
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