The boy with the striped pajamas

One day, when Bruno returned home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the housemaid — who always keeps her head bowed and never lifts her eyes from the carpet — in his room, moving all his belongings from the wardrobe and packing them into four large wooden boxes, even those things that only belonged to him and that he had hidden in the back and were none of anyone else's concern! And from here, the story began. From the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. This novel has been translated into more than fifty languages, and more than 9 million copies of the book have been sold. It has been adapted into a film, plays, ballet performances, and an opera. Writer John Boyne won three Irish Writers' Awards and many international awards. According to independent.ie, the book sold 438,000 copies in the United Kingdom and Ireland in 2008, the year the film was produced, two years after the first edition of the novel was published. The publisher is one of the best-selling books worldwide, a story that is hard to describe. Usually, we give some hints about the book on the cover, but in this case, we believe that might spoil the reading. And we think it’s important to start reading this book without knowing what it’s about. If you begin reading it, you will go on a journey with a nine-year-old boy named Bruno. Sooner or later, you will reach the wall with Bruno. And we hope you never have to cross such a wall. Quote from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: "We are made up of stories, and even the stories that seem more like lies can be our deepest hidden truths." | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.