This novel is outstanding and well deserved of all the praise it is recieving. It had been a book I had avoided for a while as I was not sure that I would enjoy a novel set in Nazi Germany which has death as a narrator. However the narrator is anything but macarbe and his 'impartial' view on death in such a traumatic period of time is refreshing. Although I understand this book was aimed at teenagers it is well written and thought provoking for an adult too.