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Markus zusak, age 32, currently lives in sydney, australia. Zusak is frequently asked whether he intended the book for a young adult or adult audience, and has said he simply wanted to write a book readers would love. The traitor and the thief is completely steampunk inspired in that victorian era with all these amazing tech inventions like travelling under the city in a metal fish. The book thief is a novel by australian author markus zusak. Its oblique angle on the german homefront never exalts the courage of the. Feb 18, 2021 book depository is the worlds most international online bookstore offering over 20 million books with free delivery worldwide.
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The expanded inventory will include australian classics, contemporary. The book thief is a historical novel by australian author markus zusak, and is his most popular work. Molching is bombed, and not like any of the times before. The setting is nazi germany just before the start of world war two, through to 1943, and the story is narrated by death.
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