IRENE

My opinion about the book:

I don't like sad books,but this book yes.
I recommend reading it. Is about topic that anyone wouldn't like to live, and yet many people who suffered in concentrations camps.

Pictures of people suffering in the concentration camps:

                     

JHON BOYNE.IRENE

BIOGRAPHY:                        

Irish writer John Boyne is best known for his novel The Boy in the striped pajamas, work that was successfully adapted into a film in 2008.

Boyne began his literary career in the stage as a student at Trinity College Dublin and managed to publish his first novel, The Thief of Time, in 2000, in addition to appearing in several anthologies of prestige thanks to his tales and short stories.

The success came in 2006 with her ​​boy striped pajamas, who managed to jump into the international market being translated into over 40 languages ​​and with over 5 million copies sold worldwide.

Boyne's work is aimed at both young people and adults, participating in initiatives to promote reading in children and the elderly.

Boyne, among other awards, has received awards such as the Curtis Brown, the IMPAC, the Irish Novel of the Year and also the What to Read for the best foreign novel.

                   

BOOKS AND WORKS:

The pacifist

The incredible case of Barnaby Brocket

At the heart of the forest

The bet

The House of Special Purpose

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The thief of time

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS

Raquel

The boy in the striped pyjamas    

The boy in the striped pyjamas is a nice book but is also sad because the Nazis have the Jews in concetration camps, forced them to work and then killed them in gas chambers.
This book is about a boy called Bruno that have to go to live very far from Berlin, because his father have to work in other pace.
When Bruno arrives at his new home did not like.
 Bruno loves to explore new places and he find the concentratión camp where is Shmuel a Jewish child.
They became very good friends and all the day Bruno goes to see Shmuel and brought him some food.
One day Shmuel tells Bruno that his father has disappeared  and Bruno tells Shmuel that he help him to fond his father.
Bruno enter in the concentration camp and the Nazis kill the two boys an more jew in a gas chamber.

Here is the movie trailer:

Some photos of the Boy in the striped pyjamas:

 (the front of the book)



(Bruno paying playing with his friends in Berlin)

(Bruno and Shmuel known)(Shmuel in the concentration camp)

(Bruno is his swing)

(Bruno an Shmuel playing a game)

(Bruno helps to Shmuel to find his father)

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS

Raquel

Irish writer John Boyne's fourth novel is the first he has written for children. It's a touching tale of an odd friendship between two boys in horrendous circumstances and a reminder of man's capacity for inhumanity.

Bruno is a nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives in a five-storey house with servants, his mother and father and 12-year-old sister, Gretel. His father wears a fancy uniform and they have just been visited by a very important personage called the Fury, a pun which adult readers should have no trouble deciphering. As a consequence of this visit, Bruno's father gets a new uniform, his title changes to Commandment and, to Bruno's chagrin, they find themselves moving to a new home at a place called Out-With.

When Bruno gets there he is immediately homesick. He has left his school, his three best friends, his house, his grandparents and the bustling street life of urban Berlin with its cafes, fruit and veg stalls, and Saturday jostle. His new home is smaller, full of soldiers and there is no one to play with. From his bedroom window, however, he notices a town of people dressed in striped pyjamas separated from him by a wire fence. When he asks his father who those people are, he responds that they aren't really people.

Bruno is forbidden to explore but boredom, isolation and sheer curiosity become too much for him. One day, he follows the wire fence cordoning off the area where these people live from his house. He spots a dot in the distance on the other side of the fence and as he gets closer, he sees it's a boy. Excited by the prospect of a friend, Bruno introduces himself. The Jewish boy's name is Shmuel. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot and talk. Eventually, for a variety of reasons, Bruno decides to climb under the fence and explore Shmuel's world.

After some initial tonal clunkiness where you can almost detect the author thinking "how do I write a child", the story is an effortless read that puts you directly into Bruno's worldview. It is elegant story-telling with emotional impact and an ending that in true fairytale style is grotesquely clever.

Bruno's friendship with Shmuel is rendered with neat awareness of the paradoxes between children's naive egocentricity, their innate concept of fairness, familial loyalty and obliviousness to the social conventions of discrimination. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is subtitled A Fable and, as in other modern fables such as Antoine de St Exupery's The Little Prince, Boyne uses Bruno to reveal the flaws in an adult world.