The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Name: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: John Boyne
ISBN: 9780385751537

John Boyne • 2006

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread

war historical loss family literary fiction

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Our Take

The child who does not understand what he is looking at, and the catastrophe that results. Boyne's use of innocence is ruthless — Bruno's naivety is the mechanism of tragedy. The ending is the only ending possible, and it is horrible, and you see it coming, and it doesn't matter.

Appears In

► Books Set During Genocide ► WWII Civilian Lives — The War That Happened at Home ► Occupation — Life Under the Enemy's Roof ► Moral Courage and Its Failure — When Watching Is the Crime

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