These traumatic events open Markus Zusak’s acclaimed 2005 novel The Book Thief, now a major motion picture that opens on 8 November in the US. Sophie Nélisse stars as the title character Liesel ...

The beloved 2006 international best-seller “The Book Thief” by Markus ... first started writing the novel, it was intended to be a 100-page novella with the character of Death coming in ...

Bolstered by the novel’s fans ... But “The Book Thief” spans these wartime years from a microcosmic vantage point, seldom straying far beyond the main characters’ ironically named ...

It was 2007, I was on a book ... my fourth novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and his fifth, The Book Thief, were each set during the second World War and featured young characters as their ...

“The Book Thief,” the handsome, inevitable adaptation of Markus Zusak’s internationally bestselling novel, unfolds as ... big-hearted non-Jewish German characters, but skirts explicitly ...

In the hands of sought after British TV director Brian Percival, best-selling novel The Book Thief turns into a warmly ... course of the next six years, the characters are variously affected ...

These traumatic events open Markus Zusak’s acclaimed 2005 novel The Book Thief, now a major motion picture that opens on 8 November in the US. Sophie Nélisse stars as the title character Liesel ...

Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and newcomer Sophie Nelisse star in director Brian Percival's adaptation of the Markus Zusak novel ... literary adaptation of The Book Thief. Both of these movies ...