Fiction
The Book ThiefPRC
Markus Zusak
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Year 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12
Themes
war · family · identity · courage · australian-author
Skills
vocabulary · inference · narrator-voice · theme-analysis · reading-stamina
Difficulty
Advanced
Pages
552 pages
Description
Death narrates the story of Liesel, a girl in WWII Germany who steals books and hides a Jewish refugee in her foster parents' basement. Zusak's narrator voice is the achievement here.
中文版
叙述者是"死亡",讲二战时期一个住在德国寄养家庭的女孩 Liesel — 她偷书,在地下室藏了一个犹太难民。Zusak 的叙述声音是这本书最了不起的成就。
Parent's call · SparkRoute editor take
Year 9+ minimum. Required reading in many AU English curricula — getting in early is useful. Long but the prose carries.
中文版
至少 Year 9。澳洲很多英文教材必读 — 提前读一遍很有用。书很厚但文笔扛得住。
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