The Book Thief by Markus ZusakMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I can see this book decorated with old lanterns filled with orange-yellowish lights flickering in the dark with smokes and bombs in the background. The story was so beautifully and honestly woven, rightfully narrated by Death. It's a very inspiring tale of a young girl who journeyed to survive poverty, war, and death.
Reading it brought me to Germany. It was an awesome painful adventure for me, and Zusak did well by writing it in a very honest way. He needn't put the story in a dramatic and melancholic way, he just told a story, actually, the way he said his tale, for me it was very factual . To make us understand what was happening, he didn't have to make his statements flowery, dark nor dramatic, it was just being honest. The theme of the story was enough to tug the people's heartstrings, imagine the weight of the story within the theme.
It's so lovely that "Words" played a very special part in the lives of the people there. How Zusak made us realize that it was all because of "words" that this story started, he meant the whole thing, starting with Hitler's domination over the people.
TO have a story narrated by Death is highly special for me. For what didn't Death see? Death is among those who could be in the omniscient point of view, and it was poetic how "he" viewed things, and paradoxical how he saw himself in relation to humans.
Liesel Meminger is the protagonist who didn't have to be sweet and gentle-spoken to be loved. We are a lot like her. We value many people, we have pasts that haunt us, we have failures, and stuff same. I can barely believe what she went through after all. I liked the way she loved the people she loves. I sometimes hated her impulsiveness, but then, she showed the imperfections we all have. All the characters in the book also played special and unforgettable roles in the novel.
Zusak was wise enough to win us by choosing a wonderful and sensitive theme for his narration. Superb.
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