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Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Written in a childish style, which resonates while using innocence within us all... Until your adult self stages in and realises what is happening. And it's then that your particular heart will break.

The story is straightforward: Bruno is often a nine year old boy, that has moved from his where you can a whole new house. It's small, cold, unfamiliar as well as on the outskirts of an Nazi concentration camp. The people within the fence wear striped pyjamas and try to look sad. There's hundreds of kids, but nobody to learn with. Bruno is lonely, bored and curious. His residence is full of soldiers who wear impressive uniforms, click their heels together and raise their right arms in salute. Click This Link whilst exploring, Bruno encounters another nine year old boy, who wears strange, striped pyjamas. It's a friendship born from loneliness, a want to break far from tedium and simply a desire for an associate.

The characters each play their part with purpose. You may know where the next turn leads, however, your heart begs it to not be true. Galloping through the narrative, you're swept from a childlike innocence on the climaxing, heartbreaking final scene.

The novel is merely 200 pages long, easy enough you just read in a day but will stick with you for many more. Bruno doesn't meet Shmuel until halfway from the novel, enough time to let you are now living in his world, experience his boredom and loneliness, living daily without direction. My understanding of the Holocaust is reasonably limited, but research tells me situations could have some truth. My child self revelled in the wonder, the curiosity, the essence of innocence. Yet, my adult self quickly realised the thing that was happening and was sickened. Still, I couldn't turn away.

Best novel I've read in a long time.

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