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The boy in the striped pyjamas

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What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil?

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.

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Random House Audiobooks
184657076X / 9781846570766
CD-Audio
823.92
01/02/2007
United Kingdom
English
4 hr., 30 min
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Unabridged CD edition to coincide with paperback publication - contains exclusive author interview!
Unabridged CD edition to coincide with paperback publication - contains exclusive author interview! FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)