Product Description

A story of innocence existing within the most terrible evil, this is the fictional tale of two young boys caught up in events entirely beyond their control.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #403 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Synopsis
The story of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about. 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. We hope you never have to cross such a fence.

From the Inside Flap
The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about.

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.

Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to cross such a fence.

From the Back Cover
The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about.

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. Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to cross such a fence.

`Stays just ahead of its readers before delivering its killer punch in the final pages'
INDEPENDENT

`A book that lingers in the mind for quite some time'
IRISH TIMES

Customer Reviews

Too horrific for words but a brilliant read!
It's been a long time since I've read a book that has moved me in such a way as this one did.

'The Boy In Striped Pyjamas' tells the tale of the family of a Nazi Commanding Officer during World War Two and how their lives change when they are uprooted from their large mansion house in Berlin to a small, lone house in Auschwitz. Just as he is becoming more and more bored with his new life, Bruno meets Shmuel, a boy of the same age who lives on the other side of the wire fence at the end of the garden, and who always wears striped pyjamas. The boys soon become friends but little does Bruno know, that this friendship will open his eyes to a world he had never known.

Telling the tale from the point of view of nine year old Bruno adds to the already horrifying circumstance that the book examines, as the language is so simple and innocent that it makes the events all the more terrible.

With a climax that'll leave you in complete shock, this is a definite must-read.

Thoughtful and interesting
I read this book in one day and it is one of the most thought provoking and interesting stories I have read recently. The level of writing is excellent and I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to read something a little different.

Must read.
I have read many of the reviews on this website and I am puzzled by some of them. I thought this was a moving account of a friendship between two young people in a terrible time. The historical accuracy,probability of it all actually happening...these thoughts do not trouble me because I felt it to be a story of friendship and understanding. I recommend it without reservation.