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A war-time fable that didn’t really work for me

June 20, 2015 by Malin 4 Comments

Nine-year-old Bruno lives in a big house in Berlin and is not at all happy when the household is packed up and he, his mother, his older sister and the servants are forced to travel by train to a new house, far away in the desolate countryside. He misses the bustling city, the house with such a great banister for sliding down, his grandparents, his friends, even his school. At the new house, there is no one to play with, just a small garden and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: CBR7, historical fiction, John Boyne, Malin, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, the Holocaust, World War II

Malin's CBR7 Review No:61 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: CBR7, historical fiction, John Boyne, Malin, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, the Holocaust, World War II ·
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