The Boy In The Striped Pajamas -

October 26, 2023

You know it’s coming. History tells you there is no happy ending here. But Boyne writes the final chapter so gently, so quietly, that you almost hope you’re wrong. Bruno, wanting to help Shmuel find his missing father, puts on a pair of the "striped pyjamas" and crawls under the fence. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

It is flawed. It is manipulative. It is also one of the most effective empathy machines ever written. October 26, 2023 You know it’s coming

Book Club & Deep Dives

Boyne has said he wrote a fable, not a textbook. He is not trying to teach you the logistics of the Holocaust; he is trying to teach you the morality of it. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas