‘Brilliant and hugely ambitious’
New York Times

‘Extraordinary, resonant, beautiful and angry’
Sunday Telegraph

HERE IS A SMALL FACT.
YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath.
Death has never been busier.
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street.
Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.

SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION
THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH.
It’s a small story, about:
a girl
an accordionist
some fanatical Germans
a Jewish fist fighter
and quite a lot of thievery