The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

Michael Maloney (Narrator)

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What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil?

Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.

Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.
  • ISBN10 184657076X
  • ISBN13 9781846570766
  • Publish Date 1 February 2007 (first published 5 January 2006)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 August 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Cornerstone
  • Imprint Random House Audiobooks
  • Edition Unabridged edition
  • Format Audiobook (CD)
  • Duration 4 hours and 58 minutes
  • Language English