Markus Zusak

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The narrator of the book is Death. Death is omniscient. Zusak begins the book by introducing Death as a benign and sympathetic entity with a tendency to define moments by their color (for example a sky turned red after a bombing raid). Death describes his first encounter with a nine-year-old girl named Liesel Meminger in the late 1930's in a graveyard shortly after the...