An Interview with Markus Zusak about The Book Thief
Uploaded May 1st 2009, by RandomBook, is an interview with the Markus Zusak, the author of The Book Thief, where he discusses different elements of inspiration in his writing of the book. Enjoy!
Markus Zusak: "She steals books at a time when people were captivated by Adolph Hitler, and in a way she's stealing words back. He was destroying people with words, and she steals books from book burnings and all types of other places, and she shares these stories with the young Jewish man hiding in her basement, and she reads them in the bomb shelters to calm people down. So in a way, she's stealing the words back, and she's rewriting her own beautiful story through this ugly world that surrounds her."