Molching, a small town on the outskirts of Munich, is the setting of The Book Thief. The town is described in great detail in the book, such as the fact that it lies on the banks of the River Amper, and a road to the Dachau Concentration Camp, these locations are both real locations in Germany and they both are near Munich, which is close to where Molching has been placed, giving the fictional town a sense of realism. The use of a fictional town that is described to be truthful in so much depth as to convince the reader it is a real place tells us that Markus Zusak might have been making up other parts of the story that may seem real, or at least that he is exaggerating. This leads the reader to believe that the author may be misleading the reader in other parts of the text that may seem realistic