Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us
...Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the
Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is
oblivious to the appalling cruelties being
inflicted on the people of Europe by his
country. All he knows is that he has been moved
from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in
a desolate area where there is nothing to do and
no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a
boy who lives a strange parallel existence on
the other side of the adjoining wire fence and
who, like the other people there, wears a
uniform of striped pyjamas. Bruno's friendship
with Shmuel will take him from innocence to
revelation. And in exploring what he is
unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become
subsumed by the terrible process.