by John Boyne · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788497872997
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«El noi del pijama de ratlles» is the novel by John Boyne published by Editorial Empúries in hardcover (264 pages).
Berlin, 1942. Bruno, a nine-year-old boy, sees the war from afar until his father, a German soldier, is posted to a rural area of Poland. There he meets Schmuel, a boy his age who lives behind a wire fence and wears striped pajamas. The friendship between them develops while Bruno still fails to understand the reality around him.
The Catalan translation is by Jordi Cussà Balaguer. The original title is The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. It is part of the Empúries Narrativa collection.
A novel suitable for young and adult readers interested in the Second World War from a literary perspective, and common in school reading lists.
John Boyne is an Irish novelist and writer. He is the author of sixteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas, and one collection of short stories. Boyne's historical novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) received critical acclaim and was adapted into a 2008 drama film of the same name. As of 2022, the book has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 58 languages, making it one of the best-selling books of all time. A sequel, titled All the Broken Places, was published in 2022.
