![]() ![]() The question is what color will everything be at that moment when I come for you? What will the sky be saying? Personally, I like a chocolate-colored sky, dark, dark chocolate. The only sound I'll hear after that will be my own breathing and a sound of the smell of my footsteps. There might be a discovery, a scream will dribble down the air. I will carry you gently away.Īt that moment, you'll be lying there. As genially as possible your soul will be in my arms (unintelligible) will be perched on my shoulder. It suffices to say that at some point in time I'll be standing over you. ![]() You'll know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. ZUSAK: (Reading) I could introduce myself properly, but it's not really necessary. YDSTIE: As Death introduces himself at the beginning of the book, it's some of the most wonderful and evocative writing, I think, in the book, and I wonder if you would read something from page four for us. ZUSAK: Well, I thought I'm writing a book about war, and there's that old adage that war and death are best friends, but once you start with that idea, then I thought, well, what if it's not quite like that? Then I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries. ![]() YDSTIE: What made you decide to have Death himself, or Death itself, narrate this story? 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. 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. MARKUS ZUSAK (Author, The Book Thief): She steals books at a time when people were captivated by Adolph Hitler, and in a way she's stealing words back. As war comes closer, she struggles to learn to read and to write down the stories of those around her. The main character, Liesel Meminger, a young, illiterate German girl, moves in with a foster family in Nazi Germany. The work by Australian author Markus Zusak is aimed at a teenage audience, but it addresses themes like death, memory and language. In a new novel called The Book Thief, the young heroine steals books in order to rebuild her life, one from a Nazi bonfire, another a gravedigger's manual, another from the town mayor's personal library. ![]()
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