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It would have been easy to say nothing, but Liesel ha the opposite reaction to her devastation. She sat in the exquisite spare room of the mayor’s house and spoke and spoke—to herself—well into the night. She ate very little. The only thing she didn’t do at all was wash… On the day of the funerals, she still hadn’t bathed… People who were at the service of Hans and Rosa Hubermann always talked about the girl who stood there wearing a pretty dress and a layer of Himmel Street dirt.
Finally, in October 1945, a man with swampy eyes, feathers of hair, and a clean-shaven face walked into the shop. He approached the counter. “Is there someone here by the name of Liesel Meminger?”… Liesel came out. They hugged and cried and fell to the floor.
A few cars drove by, each way. Their drivers were Hitlers and Hubermanns, and Maxes, killers, Dillers, and Steiners…. I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know?
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