Sunday, May 31, 2009

Striped Pyjamas

I'm teaching The Wave to Year 10 at the moment. So I do have a bit of Third Reich on the brain.


And I reckon The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne would make my top 6 books released in the last 10 years. (It is a list in progress).

Yes, it is a Holocaust story.
Yes, they made it into a film.
Yes, you should go and see it. Even if you haven't read the book. Even if you have.


They have done amazing things with parallel narratives, with symbolism, with music.
With this story, the less that is said, the better. Just go see.

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