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By Markus Zusak
Knopf, 552 pages, $16.95
A complex and complicated book set in World War II Germany, narrated by a character named Death, “The Book Thief” is aimed at teenage readers, but adults will find it rewarding. The story–about a book-loving foster child–is compelling, but what elevates this novel is its narrative, which zigs and zags with astonishing, and suprising, force.