The book has sold more than eight million copies worldwide, has held a place on The New York Times best-seller list for almost seven years and has been translated into more than 30 languages. I’m really grateful for the great respect it was shown.” “So it’s still a beautiful surprise that it has been made. “You sign up, but everyone tells you it’ll never get made,” says the 38-year-old Australian author.
Zusak says he never expected “The Book Thief” to be turned into a film. Rush had not read the book before reading the script by Michael Petroni (“The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”), but says when he did, he found “the language so fantastic.”īut Rush says he knew it would be difficult to film “the thrilling but very distinctive literary devices” of the book.For example: “The sky was yellow, like burning newspaper,” observes Death after a massive bombing of German civilians. Much of the film - directed by Brian Percival (“Downton Abbey,” “North & South”) - was shot at Studio Babelsberg in Berlin, where production designer Simon Elliott built the Hubermanns’ house on the fictional Himmelstrasse.Īnyone who has read “The Book Thief” knows the challenge of adapting the book was not simply in re-creating the setting, but in representing Zusak’s vivid language and descriptions.
(Himmelstrasse, which also translates to “Road to Heaven,” is also the name of the 100-yard path leading to the gas chambers at the Sobibor extermination camp where an estimated quarter of a million Jews were killed.) The neighborhood is home to working-class German families, and Hans, a poor housepainter, keeps his dislike of the Nazis tamped down. They live on Himmelstrasse (Heaven Street). She is placed with a childless couple, Hans and Rosa Hubermann, in small town near Munich just before World War II. The girl, whose father was likely executed for being a communist and whose mother can no longer keep her, was on her way to foster care at the time. “Curiosity got the better of me,” he says. The story is told by Death, who notices the young Liesel Meminger just before he takes her little brother. The beloved 2006 international best-seller “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak instead relies on the past - the not-so-distant, painful era of Nazi Germany. Successful young-adult novels more often then not involve vampires, magic, sci-fi or fantasy worlds.
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