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: #267 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

The boy in striped pyjamas
I read this on holiday. I have a keen interest in the second world war. I was very disappointed. Although I understand that the book is totally fiction, I felt that the writer hadn't really done enough research into it and that It was as though a child had written a short story about the war.

Wow what a PUNCH at the end!
I would certainly recommend this as a great book for young people to read, it is a small easy to read book, with short chapters...... I read it in a couple of days, and thouroughly enjoyed it. I don't want to give anything away, but it was interesting seeing it from 'the other side's' point of view, and through a childs innocent eyes. Wow what a PUNCH at the end, certainly hits hard!! Worth reading, especially before the film is released in September....... I have now given it to my 14yr old son to read.

It just 'sticks' in your mind...
This book is one of those rare reads. Long after you have finished it, you think about it and find it is stuck in your mind. It's an extremely quick read, a day on holiday for me, I had bought it at the airport last minute and knew nothing about it so it was a nice surprise to find I had picked up something that was completely different to my usual sun lounger reads.

I am not going to give anything away, but if you are in two minds, just buy it, you will skip through it quickly and you too may find you are still thinking about it a couple of weeks later.

I must say though I am really disappointed in Amazon for not removing or editing earlier reviews which totally go in to the synopsis of the book, particularly when the publishers have gone out of their way in not giving anything away, so much so that even the back of the book gives no real clues as to what it is about.

To anyone browsing these pages. Read the book - not the reviews!!