Excerpt from 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak. By ABC News. February 19, 2006, 2:08 PM. March 17, 2006— -- Kind and compassionate Death narrates the tale of a town in Nazi Germany.

On Monday evening, March 28, Markus Zusak, the 35-year old Australian author of The Book Thief, will be welcomed by an entire town of readers at the Greenwich Library. His widely acclaimed novel ...

FabFiction, a scripted co-production initiative between ARD’s public broadcasters NDR, SWR and WDR, has boarded Lingo Pictures’ The Messenger. Based on Markus Zusak’s best-selling novel of ...

The Book Thief author Markus Zusak explains why failure is good for you at TEDxSydney talk. MARKUS Zusak is a best-selling author whose novel has been adapted into an Oscar-nominated film but he ...

In this heartrending memoir, novelist Zusak (The Book Thief) recounts his family’s love affair with three rowdy rescue dogs: Reuben, Archer, and Frosty. Writing after the last of the three died ...

On Black Friday, instead of shopping, I finished reading Mark Zusak’s The Book Thief. It was an excellent book, just the kind of mental vacation I wanted to take over the Thanksgiving holiday. I ...

The hardest task set before any feature film is to live up to a beloved and bestselling book. Markus Zusak’s “The Book Thief” was not only widely read and well loved; it is also a book-lover ...