The Book Thief Paperback Markus ZusaksThe Book Thiefhas topped the New York Times bestsellers list and has won awards in his home country Australia and all over the world. Set in 1939 Germany, nine year-old Liesels parents have been taken away to a concentration camp and she is now living with a foster family in a box-like house on Himmel Street. Liesel steals books and this is her story a story of a girl, an accordionist, fanatical Germans, a jewish fist fighter and a lot of thievery. A piece of mod