The Book Thief is a 2005 award-winning historical fiction written by Markus Zusak, published by Picador. The novel is set in Molching, Germany, during World War II and follows the story of Liesel ...

working-class neighborhood of Molching, Germany. In a new novel called The Book Thief, the young heroine steals books in order to rebuild her life, one from a Nazi bonfire, another a gravedigger's ...

Liesel's brother dies on the way to Molching, near Munich, and she is left on her own. She, of course, is the book thief of the title, and the books she steals from the cemetery where her brother ...

On Wednesday, March 5 at 7 p.m., the Westfield Memorial Library Book Club will discuss ... at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working-class neighborhood ...

“The Book Thief” looks at the lives of ordinary Germans ... and her mother will soon), taken to live with a couple to Molching, on the outskirts of Munich. On the train there, her brother ...

But over a series of vignettes in the fictional town of Molching that span from ... Why is “The Book Thief” set in Nazi-occupied Germany, then, if it won’t engage with the era’s shattering ...

Arriving in the fictional Alpine town of Molching after burying her brother ... when dealing with the minutiae of life in Nazi Germany, The Book Thief falls flat whenever it needs to deal with ...

Angelic orphan Liesel (Sophie Nélisse) arrives in fictional Molching, Germany, in 1938 with separation ... while developing into an avid reader. Where the book had a kernel of intellectual ...