Leur heure venue, bien peu sont ceux qui peuvent échapper à la Mort. Et, parmi eux, plus rares encore, ceux qui réussissent à éveiller Sa curiosité.
Liesel Meminger y est parvenue.
Trois fois cette fillette a croisé la Mort et trois fois la Mort s'est arrêtée.
Est-ce son destin d'orpheline dans l'Allemagne nazie qui lui a valu cet intérêt ? Ou sa force extraordinaire face aux événements ? À moins que ce ne soit son secret... Celui qui l'a aidée à survivre et a même inspiré à la Mort ce joli surnom : la Voleuse de livres...
Best-seller international, cette fable singulière envoûte par son audace et son originalité. Questions de femmes Ironique et paradoxal, La Voleuse de livres appartient à ce genre hybride d'ouvrages destinés à la fois aux adolescents et aux adultes. Le Monde des Livres Cet ouvrage a reçu le prix Millepages Jeunesse
Chez les Dunbar, on vit dans un grand bazar : sans parents, sans règles et entouré d'animaux. Cinq frères partagent un quotidien qui n'est que fourberies, défis en tout genre et coups de coeur.
Mais aujourd'hui, le père qui les a abandonnés revient avec une demande étrange : lequel de ses garçons acceptera de construire un pont avec lui ? Tous s'indignent violemment, sauf Clay, le fils du milieu, le plus fragile. Mais pourquoi accepter cette main tendue d'un père qui est parti ?
Dans la veine de Et au milieu coule une rivière et de Légendes d'automne, un grand roman sur le lien qui unit père et fils ; et une superbe histoire d'amour qui met à l'honneur le coeur brisé des hommes. Une saga familiale bouleversante de justesse et de poésie.
The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller'A novel of breathtaking scope' Guardian1939.SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATHThis new edition features exclusive first chapter from Markus Zusak's brand new literary novel BRIDGE OF CLAY, out in autumn 2018.
The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, now a modern classic.
'A novel of breathtaking scope, masterfully told' Guardian 'Brilliant and hugely ambitious' New York Times 'Extraordinary' Telegraph BRIDGE OF CLAY, the new novel by Markus Zusak, is out this October 2018 in hardback.
HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.
Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.
SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION - THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH BRIDGE OF CLAY, the new novel by Markus Zusak, is out this October 2018 in hardback.
The five Dunbar brothers are living - fighting, learning, loving - in the perfect chaos of a house without grown-ups. Today, the father who walked out on them long ago is about to walk right back in. And so the life of Clay, the quiet one with a harrowing secret, is set to change for ever.
Rube never loved any of them. He never cared about any of them. He just wanted each one because she was next, and why not take the next thing if it was better than the last? Needless to say, Rube and I aren't too much alike when it comes to women.
Molching bei München. Hans und Rosa Hubermann nehmen die kleine Liesel Meminger bei sich auf - für eine bescheidene Beihilfe, die ihnen die ersten Kriegsjahre kaum erträglicher macht. Für Liesel jedoch bricht eine Zeit voller Hoffnung, voll schieren Glücks an - in dem Augenblick, als sie zu stehlen beginnt. Anfangs ist es nur ein Buch, das im Schnee liegen geblieben ist. Dann eines, das sie aus dem Feuer rettet.
My name's Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don't have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn't really function without tomato sauce. That's me.
Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) and plotting to rob the local dentists. But what Cameron really wants is to meet a girl - a real girl, not like the ones in the lingerie magazines. But who could ever love an underdog like Cameron Wolfe?
"There''s a madman dog beside me, and the hounds of memory ahead of us. It''s love and beasts and wild mistakes, and regret, but never to change things . . ."
What happens when the Zusaks open their family home to three big, wild, pound-hardened dogs - Reuben, a wolf at your door with a hacksaw; Archer, blond, beautiful, deadly; and the rancorously smiling Frosty, who walks like a rolling thunderstorm?
The answer can only be chaos: there are street fights, park fights, public shamings, property trashing, bodily injuries, stomach pumping, purest comedy, shocking tragedy, and carnage that needs to be seen to be believed . . . not to mention the odd police visit at some ungodly hour of the morning.
There is a reckoning of shortcomings and failure, a strengthening of will, but most important of all, an explosion of love - and the joy and recognition of family.
From one of the world''s great storytellers comes a tender, motley and exquisitely written memoir about the human need for both connection and disorder; but it''s also a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty - but also the visceral truth of the natural world - straight to our doors and into our lives, and change us forever.
1939, en Allemagne nazie. Alors que le pays retient son souffle, une petite fille apprend à lire et à résister, pendant que la mort rôde.... Venez découvrir ce roman grandiose dans cette édition collector à tirage limité !
C'est la Mort elle-même qui raconte cette histoire. Dotée d'un humour noir, sarcastique, mais compatissant, elle est témoin de la folie des hommes. Tout semble perdu d'avance, sauf quand se distinguent des enfants rebelles et des Allemands qui n'obéissent pas aux règles...
DONT MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY , MARKUS ZUSAKS FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF . The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read . 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 cant resistbooks. 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
