The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

by John Boyne

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: 0552774731
• ISBN13: 9780552774734
• Publish Date: 1 January 2099 (first published 5 January 2006)
• Publish Status: Cancelled
• Out of Print: 21 May 2008
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Imprint: Black Swan
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 224
• Language: English

Reviews

[fmthoangan]

Beauty purity of a child in tremendous tragedy

[Amber]

I was crying quietly until the last page and then the final two paragraphs broke me. "Not in this day and age." *weeps*