Markus Zusak: The Book Thief - 20th Anniversary Celebration

This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

Can’t make the event? Purchase a signed 20th Anniversary Edition of The Book Thief here.

ACCESSIBILITY:

Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator.

ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by Feb. 17 to request.

Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.

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#1 New York Times bestseller • One of Time magazine’s 100 Best YA Books of All Time • A New York Times Reader Top 100 Pick for Best Books of The 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of The Century

The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times.

When Death has a story to tell, you listen.

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time.

“The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times

“Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today

Markus Zusak is the internationally bestselling author of six novels, including The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger, and Bridge of Clay. His most recent book is Three Wild Dogs (and the truth) a memoir. He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and children.