Throughout Markus Zusak’s book ‘The Book Thief’ the readers preconceptions of what they believe is true are always challenged.

A books genre that revolves around magical realism requires of the writer successfully convincing the reader that an aspect of the story is real when really it is a lie. The writer does this by wrapping there lies in truths, this is so the reader thinks that since many of the other factors of the story are real then the lie must be to. Challenging the reader in what they should believe is true.

An example of this in the book is the town on Molching where the story is set. It is never mentioned but Molching is not a real place, but when Zusak used believable events and locations to convince the reader feel like Molching was real was describing it’s location in relation to other towns and describing events that occurred there make Molching sound like a real place.
“Quite a way beyond the outskirts of Munich, there was a town called Mulching”