The Book Thief

January 1939. Germany. A country holding its breath. Never before has death had so much work. And it will have even more.
Mother is taking nine-year-old Liesel Meminger and her younger brother to their foster parents near Munich because their father... is no longer there – he was taken by the breath of a strange and foreign word 'communist,' and in the mother's eyes, the girl sees fear of a similar fate. On the road, death visits the boy and for the first time notices Liesel.
Thus, the girl finds herself on Himmel Street – Heaven Street. Whoever came up with that name had a healthy sense of humor. It wasn't that there was absolute hell there. No. But it was certainly not paradise.
'The Book Thief' became a publishing sensation. Its print run in English alone exceeded 1.5 million copies.