The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a story about two very different children (one is the son of a Nazi commander, and the other is a jew in a concentration camp) who make friends but they are unlucky. Written by John Boyne and published in 2006.

The novel is narrated from the perspective of nine-year-old Bruno, the son of a Nazi commander.

When Bruno arrives home, he sees his family packing things and discovers that they are moving to Out-With and that he will have to leave his friends in Berlin. In Out-With, he finds himself alone by the lack of children and decides to go to visit the people behind the fence the place that Bruno can see from his bedroom window (the concentration camp that Bruno thinks is a farm); after a good time walking he finds Schmuel and they make friends, and all of days he goes to play with him. One day, Bruno finds Schmuel serving in his house, Schmuel asks him to eat, Bruno gives him but  Koter (a Nazi soldier) catches Shmuel eating and accuses him of stealing and Bruno did not do anything to deny it. The next day Schmuel asks Bruno for help to find his father. One day Schmuel gives him a suit like his to Bruno and passes the fence digging a hole with a shovel. Bruno decides go home, but it’s too late.

The guys are in line with hundreds of other prisoners and are sent to death in a gas chamber. Bruno’s family searches for several days until a Nazi soldier finds a pile of clothes near the hole in the fence. Finally, Bruno’s mother returned to Berlin with Gretel and Bruno’s father disappeared with a group of fellow soldiers.

The book is easy to read and is interesting because it explains how was the son of a Nazi commander life and how it was that of the Jews at that time. I would recommend this book to anyone over the age of 10.

Joel Sambola