I have hated the words and I have loved 'em, and I hope I have made' em right.

When I read synopsys Books of The Thief, I'm frankly not packed. I do not want to read a Schindler's List.
However, I forced myself seeing all the positive reviews of this book.
Liesel Merminger is a little girl during the Nazi Germany. His parents are suspected of communism, she is also entrusted to Hubermann who live on the outskirts of Munich. She steals books. The story is simple. It is not the interest of the book.
First surprise: a format and unusual narrator. This book is indeed narrated by Death, Death observing a humanity one of its cruelest moments Nazism. Death has a beautiful prose, simple but poetic. Markus Zusak plays with the codes of the novel, to hell with the rules of narration, to hell with suspense, and it could have ended very badly but it's great.
The other particularity of this book is that it is not really focused on Nazi Germany. I mean, yes, it is a book whose history happens during Nazi Germany, but is more interested in the human. Small people who have nothing special but who become extraordinary from the pen of Zusak. Liesel Merminger is the heroine of this novel - but it does nothing special, nothing will be recognized in history, no one will remember the little thief books and yet it is extraordinary. It attaches to each of the characters, wonderful in their own way and in all subtlety. I do not think I'd Hubermann Rosa and finally, my heart sinks every time I think of her and her "Saukerl, Saumensch".
It is a powerful book. This is a book about these people that no one knows but which are sublime in their own way about friendship, love, family, injustice, innocence of childhood. On the power of words, the power of books.
This is one of those books that transcends its form and this is my favorite book.