The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Edition: Black Swan edition (1)
Publisher: Black Swan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780552773805
Copyright date: 2006
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 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.