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Sunday, 12 October 2014

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

Very well-written book with some unusual elements:
- set in WWII in Germany, just outside Munich, but most of the characters are poor Germans
- a look at the survivors of Nazism within German society itself
- the Jewish theme comes in, but in an unusual way
- the narrator is Death

Turns out it is actually a young-adult book.  Some of those seem to be the best fiction around these days, from the "good story" point of view.

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