frankilou_reader 's review for:

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

4.0

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Wow...I think I am in a state of shell shock. This book is great. It really punches you at the end but at the same time the story is told very gently and without anything explicit. The friendship developed between the two boys is very touching and this book very poignantly captures the loss of innocence of a little boy trying to understand what is going on around him. The question that many people have raised - whether it is possible that Bruno would know so little about what was going on around him - to me isn't significant, because the story tells so much more than this and if Bruno had known more the whole point of the book wouldn't exist. It has made me think more about the children in Germany who were caught up in this time and the impact it had on their lives. This is definately worth reading, and only took me 4.5 hours.