The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas #1

by John Boyne

If you do start to read this book, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. (Though this isn’t a book for nine-year-olds.) And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence.

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Description

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 in 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.

Additional information

Book Condition

Used – Good

Cover

Paperback

Size

Length: 220 pages

Published

2007 by Definitions

Genre

Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction

Awards

Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Intermediate (2009),
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Preis der Jugendjury (2008),
Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award for John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award (2007),
Waterstones Children's Book Prize Nominee (2006),
LovelyBooks Leserpreis Nominee for Allgemeine Literatur (2009),
Premi Protagonista Jove for Categoria 14-16 anys (2007)