La maison des intentions particulières

Vous ne trouverez pas ici le résumé de ce livre car il est important de le découvrir sans savoir de quoi il parle. On dira simplement qu'il s'agit de l'histoire du jeune Bruno que sa curiosité va mener à une rencontre de l'autre côté d'une étrange barrière. Une de ces barrières qui séparent les hommes et qui ne devraient pas exister.John Boye est né à Dublin en Irlande, en 1971. Après des études de littérature, il suit le cours d'écriture de l'université d'East Anglia, où il enseignera plus tard. Vers l'âge de vingt ans, il commence à écrire des nouvelles, dont certaines paraissent dans la presse, notamment dans le Sunday Tribune. Le garçon en pyjama rayé est son quatrième roman et son premier ouvrage destiné à la jeunesse. Cependant, cette fiction poignante a su interpeller les lecteurs de tous âges. Traduit en dix-sept langues et couronné de nombreux prix, comme le irish Book Award Listener's Choice Book of the Year, le livre fait actuellement l'objet d'une adaptation au cinéma

Un véritable coup de cœur ! L’intrigue est admirablement construite. L’auteur distille savamment les informations à travers ses 4 narrateurs en jouant avec les nerfs du lecteur. Il le laisse découvrir les personnages, s’y attacher, pour mieux le surprendre en révélant certains pans dérangeants de leur passé. Il questionne les limites de sentiments tels que l’empathie, l’amour, le pardon ; au grand dam du lecteur qui ne sait plus quoi penser et ne se reconnait plus.

In this Holocaust novel, Bruno leaves his wonderful Berlin home with his parents because of "the fury." Boyne's depiction of time and place becomes real with Michael Maloney's characterization of this displaced 9-year-old, who rapidly goes from excited confusion to indignant anger. Maloney's narrative bits are a calm counterpoint to the bewilderment of the protagonist, who finds himself at "Off With," where he is surrounded by people dressed in striped pajamas. Maloney continues to dramatize Bruno's moods as he makes friends with a young prisoner and observes the cruelty of a controlling soldier. Making Bruno real is crucial to our acceptance of his innocent horror, essential to filling in all the author doesn't say, and necessary to establishing the emotional balance we need to hear this disturbing story. S.W. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright - AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Résumé : Cast out from her West Cork village, sixteen years old and pregnant, Catherine Goggin makes her way to Dublin to start afresh. She has no choice but to believe that the nun to whom she entrusts her child will find him a better life.The baby is named Cyril by his adoptive parents, Charles and Maude Avery, a well-to-do but deeply eccentric couple who treat him more like a curiosity than a son. You're not a real Avery, they tell him. And perhaps he isn't. But through them he meets Julian Woodbead who, even from childhood, seems destined for an infinitely more glamorous and dangerous life. And so begins one man's funny and moving search to find his place in a world that seems to delight in gently tormenting him at every turn. Buffeted by circumstance and, at times, the consequences of his own questionable judgement, Cyril must navigate his emotions and desires in a search for that most elemental human need, happiness.