Education of the book thief

Nine year old liese lives with her forster family on Himmel streets as her communist parents have been transprted to a concentration camp. During her brother's funeral, she steals a gravediggers instruction manual . This is the first of many books which will pass through her hands as the carnage of the world war II begins to clain lives .Both liese and inhabitants of Himmel street will find themselves changed by words and the horrendous events happening around them.
Despite its grim narrator, the book thief is in fact, a life affirming book, celebrating the power of words to provide sustenance to the soul.In terestingly, the world war II setting does not limit its relevance in the 20th century, totalitarian censorship throughout the world is as keen as ever at suppressing books .It is in fact, required reading- or should be in any civilised country.