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An all time favorite...not just for the story line itself... but for the beauty of each word on the page.
I would give this book 4.5 stars. The story is a real heartbreaker. I really enjoyed the writer's manner of story telling such as death as a narrator, girl's small world which somehow can be projected to the outside real worl if horror, love, survival, moral and finally ceasing the day.
This story is a true survivor. I loved it! ...more
This story is a true survivor. I loved it! ...more
Nov 26, 2018
Barbara
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it was amazing
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This book is wonderful. The author is so inventive-death as the narrator I’ve read many WWII books. Many were from the allied perspective and very very few from the Axis. We forgot that for the most part German citizens suffered throughout the war sometimes I think more than the citizens of this country. Liesel, a child in a small German town had to navigate the horror of her brother dying and being abandoned by her mother. But the biggest horror was surviving the war. Heartbreaking and inspirin
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One of my all time favorite!
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Shweta
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it was amazing
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