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The boy in the striped pyjamas : a fable

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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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Black Swan
0552773808 / 9780552773805
Paperback / softback
823.92
01/02/2007
United Kingdom
English
214 p.
20 cm
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Quiz No: 209058, Points 7.00, Book Level 5.80,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: London: David Fickling, 2006.
What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil?
What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil? FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)