by John Boyne · David Fickling Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788535911121
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«O Menino do Pijama Listrado» is the historical novel by John Boyne, published by David Fickling Books in paperback (190 pages, in Brazilian Portuguese).
Bruno, aged nine, leaves Berlin when his father is assigned to work in a desolate place. From his new house he sees a fence and, on the other side, people dressed in striped pajamas. He befriends Shmuel, a boy born on the same day as him, and that friendship brings him closer to the reality of the Holocaust, without Bruno ever coming to understand it.
First installment of the series The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; the work was originally published in English in 2006.
For readers of historical fiction and stories about World War II, both young and adult.
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.
