THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS BY JOHN BOYNE

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne is a holocaust novel. It is about a heart-robbing  friendship  between Bruno and Shmuel .Bruno is the son of a Nazi commandant whose family shifted from their home in Berlin to a house  near a concentration camp .Deprived of his new life without school and friends, Bruno sneaks out of his house to explore his neighborhood. During this venture by the iron fences near his home, he meets a Jewish  boy named Shmuel  on the other side of fence. In the midst of this cruel world they found resemblance in each other .Their friendship grew  beyond the iron fences that not even the deadly mist could separate them.

   Annette Sebastian