- Bank robberies, Juvenile fiction, Lebenslauf, Messengers
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Markus Zusak
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Macmillan publishers, LUMEN, cbt
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- Chinese, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9781909531369
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Markus Zusak was born in 1975 and is the author of five books, including the international bestseller, The Book Thief, which is translated into more than forty languages. First released in 2005, The Book Thief has spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, and still remains there to this day. source: http://www.zusakbooks.com photo: https://www.facebook.com/MarkusZusak/
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