Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780552773898
ISBN: 0552773891
Label: Black Swan
Manufacturer: Black Swan
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: January 01, 2008
Publisher: Black Swan
Studio: Black Swan

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Rating: - A truly beautiful book
I can't recommend this book highly enough.
It's true that its very setting fills it with sadness but its originality, delicacy, poetry and certainly humour make it a very special book indeed.
I's one of those books that risks making you unpopular as you try desperately to convince everyone you know to read it.

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Rating: - What a gifted writer
This book was accidently left on a bus and I wasn't even one quarter through. What did I do? I re-purchased it of course, also thanks to the fact that I purchased it both times with a great discount price, how could I not have? I would have missed out the opportunity to read such a good though tragic story. The author makes the story somewhat humorous in some parts to take off the horrific and sorrowful edge of what really happened in that time of history. It was a lovely read and the description ... Read More

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Rating: - Incredible - quite possibly the best book ever
I finished this book last night, rather poignantly on Armistice Day. I was blown away. I had no idea that this was a book for "young adults" but I certainly recommend that everyone of any age reads it. This novel is beautifully written and I found I was carrying the story around with me and thinking about the lives of these characters even when I wasn't actually reading the book. I read most of it on the train and decided to finish it off at home last night - good job I did too because I was literally ... Read More

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Rating: - Delicately written, thoughtful and meaningful.
I won't go in to the details of this book because I don't want to ruin any of it for you, the story is very unique and told from an unusual perspective.

I just loved this! It's very rare that I keep hold of a book, I usually pass it to a friend to read but I found myself buying additional copies for my friends so that they could share the beauty of it.

This book is just outstanding! I wouldn't usually read this type of book, I thought it was going to be heart-wrenching and gritty ... Read More

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Rating: - Didn't Quite Steal my Heart
An interesting ploy to have DEATH narrate this quaint tale of a young German girl stumbling upon and stealing various books whilst World War 2 and the holocaust is buzzing all around her.

For me it didn't quite hit home as a GREAT, but nonetheless it has a certain charm - and worth a run if you've got the time; at 560 pages you're going to need it as the events are fairly pedestrian.

Oh, give it a go...then tell me I'm wrong!

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