The Boy in the Striped Pajamas -

John Boyne

David Fickling Books

2008

240 páginas

8h 0m

ISBN-10: 0385751893

John Boyne's The Boy in Striped Pyjamas will no doubt acquire many readers as a result of the subsequent film of the novel, but viewers of the latter would do themselves a favour by going back to the spare and powerfully affecting original book. Bruno is nine years old, and the Nazis’ horrific Final Solution to the “Jewish Problem” means nothing to him. He's completely unaware of the barbarity of Germany under Hitler, and is more concerned by his move from his well-appointed house in Berlin to a far less salubrious area where he finds himself with nothing to do. Then he meets a boy called Shmuel who lives a very different life from him -- a life on the opposite side of a wire fence. And Shmuel is the eponymous boy in the striped pyjamas, as are all the other people on the other side of the fence. The friendship between the two boys begins to grow, but for Bruno it is a journey from blissful ignorance to a painful knowledge. And he will find that this learning process carries, for him, a daunting price.

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4 (Muito bom)

Me assustei quando vi o tanto de avaliações negativas que esse livro tem. Já assisti a adaptação e chorei horrores e lendo o livro me deu uma angustia muito grande. claramente não é o livro mais bem escrito e detalhado do mundo, mas não deixa de ser impactante.