What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil?Nineyearold Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appa... » 

What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil?Nineyearold 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 noone 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.Bruno8217s 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.8216The Holocaust as a subject insists on respect precludes criticism prefers silence. One thing is clear this book will not go gently into any good night8217 OBSERVER8216An extraordinary tale of friendship and the horrors of war8230 Raw literary talent at its best8217 IRISH INDEPENDENT8216A book that lingers in the mind for quite some time8230 A subtle calculatedly simple and ultimately moving story8217 IRISH TIMES8216Simply written and highly memorable. There are no monstrosities on the page but the true horror is all the more potent for being implicit8217 IRELAND ON SUNDAY8216Stays ahead of its readers before delivering its killerpunch final pages8217 INDEPENDENT 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 appallin «