A review by booksandblossoms_
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne

1.0

I need to start off by saying that this book was not what I was expecting. I don’t even know what I was expecting, but it’s not what I got. I refuse to believe that a 9 year old boy whose life in Germany is uprooted to move into a new house next to a concentration camp, that the book so frustratingly refers to as “Out-With” (Auschwitz), has absolutely no clue about what’s going on around him. I also find it insanely unbelievable that the boy would have no idea what a Jew is, considering his father was a high-ranking official for Germany.