The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

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When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance.

But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye.

My Thoughts: Only the speed at which the pages were turning was satisfying enough to keep me reading this book. It was pretty slow right up until the last few pages - I did not like Bruno as a character, he seemed unbelievably naive, not knowing anything at all about the world that surrounded him. Very difficult to believe that he was 8 or 9.
Overall - a tragic read, touching on a subject that should have been more effectively written, but did not nearly meet the expectations that I had of it.

I RATED IT 2/10