Boy in the Striped Pajamas | 
| Author: John Boyne
Publisher: David Fickling Books
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Reading Level: Young Adult
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 0385751532
EAN: 9780385751537
ASIN: 0385751532
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
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Product Description
Berlin 1942
When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance.
But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.
From the Hardcover edition.
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 A MUST read for EVERYONE! October 10, 2008
Written as an allegory or perhaps a pseudo-fable, "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" is one of those rare finds that enables the reader to explore familiar territory in a new way and from a different perspective.
While we have (hopefully) all read or heard countelss Holocaust tales, this one is told from a new and indeed daring viewpoint - that of the naieve nine year old son of a Nazi Commandant, who has no idea the evils and horrors surrounding him. In fact, he can't quite understand why the people on the "other side of the fence" get to wear striped pajamas and play with each other all day while he's confined in his new home at "Out-With."
This is a novel for EVERYONE- I truly believe children as well as adults will gain so much from reading it, regardles of their race, religion, nationality or background. It is short and extremely fast-paced- the average reader should be able to read it entirely within a day or two, however it will continue to haunt you and invade your thoughts for weeks on end.
While some potential readers will avoid this one perhaps because it is so hard to read about the Holocaust, I can't stress highly enough that this is a "MUST READ" and one that will have you smiling and laughing along the way- a rare reaction to a story built upon the evils of the Holocaust. Furthermore, this story is not only about the Holocaust, but applies equally to all those situations in which there are groups of people on two sides of a "fence" - it is applicable to the current and past crises in Darfur, genocides throughout the ages, and even those less obvious ones found in our school yards or our own neighborhoods across the county.
A Must-Read September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I liked this book alot. I can't really describe it that well without giving it away but it's very good. It's well written and I like the approach John Boyne used on the subject.
This book is also being turned into a movie coming out in the US in November 2008. So if you like reading books and then watching the movie that goes with it....
But very powerful and just very good.
PS, its also sad
 Dramatic... September 22, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
... in the negative meaning of the word.
After hearing a lot of good about this book and seeing on the cover it is "soon to become a major movie" I decided to pick it up before it would hit cinema. I wish I didn't.
Why?
1) The plot is very thin and you can see the end -dramatic as it is- coming halfway through the story.
2) The plot is also very unbelievable. Two boys meeting on a silent spot for over a year in a place like Auschwitz? And oh yeah, exactly on a place where there's a hole in the fence??
3) There are a lot of continuancy errors in the writing (e.g. on one page it is said that he has forgotten the names of all his friends, but on the page before that he mentions them all)
4) And this point is the worst for me (because of this it was impossible for me to feel one with the character and it kept irritating me througout the book): Out-with (Bruno, the 9-year old boy through whose eyes the story is told, thinks this is the name of the camp). It took some time before I realized what was meant with it. And why? Because I thought Bruno was a German boy. And there is no way a German boy would understand Auschwitz as Out-with. The camp would have to be called Ausmitz or something like that. So either Bruno is a bit deaf or he thinks in English.
The only positive thing I can think about this book is that it is easy reading and it will take only two hours of your time.
What a Book September 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thhis is the best book that I have read.
It gives a child's eye view of the holocaust.
I read it and then gave it to my son to read.
It creates a fabulous way to dialogue about a difficult subject.
Amazing read. A must Read.
 Pretty lame story September 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A sappy story that tries to denounce the absurdity of the Holocaust by looking at it through the eyes of two children that, despite being as involved as children could be, cannot even begin to comprehend the situation. This book is really quite lame for adult reading; it never made me care enough about any of the characters. I think the right audience is probably kids in their early teens. Problem is, kids in their early teens probably don't know much about the Holocaust, so a portrayal from a child's view that can't even say Fuehrer or Auschwitz properly is surely not going to help them understand. (The use of words by Bruno like "Fury" or "Out-With" to refer to those also didn't make a lot of sense to me, particularly because Bruno speaks German, not English.) I was gifted this book and had been told it was being praised by critics, but found it to be a total letdown.
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