The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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<p><b>'Simply written and highly memorable' </b><i>Ireland on Sunday</i><br><b>'A subtle, calculatedly simple and ultimately moving story' </b><i>Irish Times</i><br><b>'Stays ahead of its readers before delivering its killer-punch final pages'</b> <i>Independent</i><br><b>'A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often' </b><i>Guardian</i><br><b>'An extraordinary tale of friendship and the horrors of war...Raw literary talent at its best'</b> <i>Irish Independent<br><b>______________</b></i><br><br><b><i>What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil?</i></b><br><br>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 [...] 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.<br><br>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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780552773805

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 128 x 17 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Verlag / Hersteller

Transworld Publ. Ltd UK