This is one of those audiobooks that you don't want to listen to because you know how it's going to end. But, still, you just have to finish it! At least the 4 CDs went quickly, and the interview with the author at the end was an added bonus--Irish accent!
Bruno is a little 9-year-old boy living in Berlin during World War II. But we have to read between the lines a lot in the novel, because Bruno doesn't always "get" what's going on around him. For example, his father, the Kommandant, moves his family to "Out-with" where a lot of people where striped pajamas and live on the other side of the fence. Bruno has no friends to play with and finally makes a friend alongside the fence. The two boys strike up a special friendship, which ends with Bruno climbing under the fence to explore what it's like inside the camp. Humph. Well, this will go on my Holocaust reading list, for sure.
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