John Boyne · duology
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas books in order
A linked pair of novels connected by the legacy of Bruno and his family across generations.
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- 1 The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Book 1 · novel · 2006
Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He’s oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has moved from Berlin to a desolate area…
- 2 All the Broken Places
Book 2 · novel · 2022
1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel…
