EAN: 9780552773805

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS - JOHN BOYNE TAS...

'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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