This anniversary edition of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller features pages of bonus content,including marked-up manuscript pagesoriginal sketchesand pages from the author’s writing notebook. ΓÇ£Life-changing.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöThe New York Times When Death has a story to tellyou listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busierand will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munichwho scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she canΓÇÖt resistΓÇôbooks. With the help of her accordion-playing foster fathershe 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 intensityaward-winning author Markus Zusakauthor of I Am the Messengerhas given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. ΓÇ£Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöUSA Today DONΓÇÖT MISS BRIDGE OF CLAYMARKUS ZUSAKΓÇÖS FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.