Adapted from Irish author John Boyne's critically acclaimed internationally best-selling novel, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is an unforgettable story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy, Shmuel, on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences
It offers a unique perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people, particularly children, during wartime. Through the lens of an eight-year-old boy largely shielded from the reality of World War II, we witness a forbidden friendship that between Bruno and Schmuel. Though the two are separated physically by a barbed wire fence, their lives become inescapably intertwined.
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