The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
by John Boyne
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN INNOCENCE IS CONFRONTED BY MONSTROUS EVIL?
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or 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 Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he rneets 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.
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Il bambino con il pigiama a righe
2009-07, BURextra Rizzoli
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El niño con el pijama de rayas
2008, Salamandra
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2008-10, David Fickling Books
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas: 穿条纹衣服的男孩
2008-08-02, 陕西师范大学出版社
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Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama
2008-01, Fischer
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
2007, Definitions
paperback
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
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The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 Holocaust novel by Irish novelist John Boyne.
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