Book description
Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us . . .
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.
John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971 and is the author of six
novels.
The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
won two Irish Book Awards, was shortlisted for the British Book Award
and has recently been made into a Miramax feature film. His novels are
published in over 30 languages. He lives in Dublin.
