The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Reviewed by Mrs. Stanberry

• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is written from an unusual perspective on Nazi Germany and the concentration camps. The book jacket states, “We think that it is important that you start to read without knowing what it [the book] is about.” The obscurity surrounding the novel adds a third dimension to the reader’s experience. The nine-year-old boy in the book is refreshingly, yet disturbingly, ingenuous in his position. In the end, his naivety presents to the reader an appalling authenticity of the time period and the horrors of the Holocaust