num_pages: 216
description: 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 in 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.
language: English
title: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
titlecomplete: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
characters: Shmuelin, Bruno Wisitzki
genres: Middle Grade, Historical, Historical Fiction, School, Young Adult, Classics, War, Fiction, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 782793
places: Auschwitz, Germany, Poland
series: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Intermediate, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Preis der Jugendjury, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award
category: John Murray Show Listeners' Choice Award, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Waterstones Children's Book Prize, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: LovelyBooks Leserpreis
category: Allgemeine Literatur, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Premi Protagonista Jove
category: Categoria 15-16 anys
publisher: Definitions