De Jongen in de gestreepte Pyjama

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

Un roman MAGNIFIQUE !!! Un magistral cours d'histoire irlandaise, des personnages empreints d'humanité et terriblement attachants ! Un petit bijou de la littérature anglo-saxonne qui offre des purs moments d'émotions brutes !!!

Chronique d’une chute annoncée ! 2021, Les Cleverley, une riche famille britannique, vont enchaîner les bourdes et provoquer leur exclusion du devant de la scène médiatique en se faisant une réputation épouvantable. John Boyne pointe les travers les réseaux sociaux : c'est déroutant, hilarant et surtout brillant ! Une comédie piquante, caustique, cynique, féroce, et pleine de finesse.

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.