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'Simply written and highly memorable' Ireland on Sunday
'A subtle, calculatedly simple and ultimately moving story' Irish Times
'Stays ahead of its readers before delivering its killer-punch final pages' Independent
'A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often' Guardian
'An extraordinary tale of friendship and the horrors of war...Raw literary talent at its best' Irish Independent
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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.

The new novel by John Boyne, WATER, is available for pre-order now.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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'Simply written and highly memorable' Ireland on Sunday'A subtle, calculatedly simple and ultimately moving story' Irish Times'Stays ahead of its... Read more

    Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/02/2007
    ISBN13: 9780552773805, 978-0552773805
    ISBN10: 0552773808

    Number of Pages: 240

    Fiction , Historical Fiction

    Description

    'Simply written and highly memorable' Ireland on Sunday
    'A subtle, calculatedly simple and ultimately moving story' Irish Times
    'Stays ahead of its readers before delivering its killer-punch final pages' Independent
    'A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often' Guardian
    'An extraordinary tale of friendship and the horrors of war...Raw literary talent at its best' Irish Independent
    ______________

    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.

    The new novel by John Boyne, WATER, is available for pre-order now.

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