The first time Death meets the Book Thief, she is just a little girl, standing in a world painted in white, shivering, staring down at the lifeless body of her brother. He hates these people, the ones left behind, but he finds her particularly interesting. Crossing paths with the Book Thief at three other occasions, including her death, Death tells, Leslie's story at a very abstract point of view. The novel, set in Nazi Germany, is very captivating and attracting after only the first 10 pages. In the prologue of the book he tells you about each time that he met the book thief. He focuses on the red sky and the special sign that he sees on the life he went to collect, and the black ashes falling from the sky the third time they crossed paths.
"***A SPECTACULARLY TRAGIC MOMENT***
A train was moving quickly.
It was packed with humans.
A six-year-old boy died in the third carriage."
This part of the book is my favorite. After every couple of paragraphs there is a stop, like a sort of blunt foreshadowing of what is going to happen. Even though I'm only at page 20, the story feels like it's already gotten very deep.
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