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* New York State Charlotte Award
* IRA Young Adult Choices
* Pacific Northwest Young Reader's Choice Award
* Iowa Teen Book Award
* Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award
* Irish Book Award Children’s Book of the Year
* Irish Book Award People’s Choice Book of the Year
* Bisto Book of the Year
* Que Leer Award Best International Novel of the Year (Spain)
* Orange Prize Readers Group Book of the Year
* Shortlisted for British Book Award
* The Border’s New Voices Award
* The Ottaker’s Children’s Book Prize
* The Paolo Ungari Literary Award (Italy)
* Irish Book Award Irish Novel of the Year Award
* The Leeds Book Award; The North-East Book Award; The Berkshire Book Award; The Sheffield Book Award; The Lancashire Book Award
* Prix Farniente (Belgium)
* Flemish Young Readers Award
* Independent Booksellers Book of the Year
* Deutschen Jugend Literatur Preis (Germany)
* Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the International IMPAC Literary Award


2006년 영국에서 처음 출간된 후, 전 세계적으로 센세이션을 일으킨 명작 청소년 소설입니다. 국내에는 "줄무늬 파자마를 입은 소년"이라는 제목으로 번역서가 출간되었으며, 현재 42개국에서 번역서가 출간된 전 세계적인 베스트셀러입니다. 마크 허먼 감독에 의해 영화로도 제작되었습니다.

이 소설이 전쟁과 유태인 대학살을 이야기하고 있지만, 전체적으로 따뜻하고 슬프며 아름다운 동화 같은 느낌은 지울 수 없습니다. 그것은 바로 어린 소년들이 그려내는 감동적인 우정 이야기이기 때문입니다. 서로에 대한 따뜻한 이해와 순수함으로 무장한 두소년의 모습은 증오와 폭력, 그리고 굴복의 어른들의 모습과 대비되어 독자들의 마음을 강하게 사로잡으며 진한 여운을 남깁니다.

베를린에서 큰 저택에 살던 브루노는 아버지의 승진 때문에 새로운 곳으로 이사를 간 뒤, 황량한 그곳에서 적응하기에 무척 힘들어 합니다. 결국 탐험 놀이를 하기로 작정하고, 집 주변에 쳐진 철조망을 따라 걷다가 줄무늬 파자마를 입고 있는 유태인 소년 쉬미엘을 발견하게 됩니다. 바로 가해자인 독일 나치의 아이와 피해자인 유태인 아이가 마주친 것입니다. 그러나 둘 사이에는 기성세대가 인위로 나누어 놓은 철조망과 같은 장애물은 전혀 존재하지 않습니다. 비록 철조망을 사이에 두고 마주 앉아 있지만 둘은 자신들의 삶과 꿈에 대해 이야기하며 하나가 됩니다. 그리고 아버지를 찾아달라는 쉬미엘을 위해 브루노는 줄무늬 파자마로 위장을 해서 철조망 안으로 들어갑니다. '줄무늬 파자마를 입은 소년'은 결국 쉬미엘이자 동시에 브루노인 것입니다. 아이들은 결국 어른들의 싸움의 희생양이 되고 맙니다. 사람들에게 휩쓸려 가스실로 들어가게 되고 그곳에서 죽음을 맞게 되기 때문이지요. 두 소년은 갑자기 아우성을 치는 사람들 사이에서 공포를 느끼며 두 손을 굳게 맞잡고 '무슨 일이 있어도 친구의 손을 절대로 놓지 않을 거야.'라며 다짐합니다.






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Paperback: 215 pages
ISBN-10: 0385751532
ISBN-13: 978-0385751537
책 크기: 20.2 cm x 13.2 cm



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Book Description
This work was set in Berlin, 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But, Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than what meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.
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School Library Journal
John Boyne's novel (David Fickling books, 2006) is a harrowing Holocaust story with an excruciating ending. It is told through the eyes of nine-year-old Bruno, whose family moves from Berlin after his father gets a promotion to Commandant. When the family arrives at their new home, Bruno is disheartened. The new place, which the boy calls Out-With, is desolate, with a large camp on the other side of a big fence, behind which all of the people, except the soldiers, wear gray-striped pajamas. After starting classes with a tutor, who advocates history over art, Bruno explores his new surroundings and meets Shmuel who is living in the fenced-in area. Bruno never quite grasps why his new friend is behind the fence, but he knows that he should keep quiet about their visits. Only mature listeners with knowledge of World War II and Hitler's final solution will be able to interpret what the author unveils slowly (there is no mention of a war going on or the ability to get news from the radio or newspapers). Still, the novel will certainly augment the study of this period in history. There is the added bonus of an interview with the author and his editor at the end of the recording. With the eager urgency and excitement of the young protagonist, Michael Maloney reads with a British accent, using various voices for the many characters. Sometimes he drops the ends of words, which can be distracting. Haunting music between chapters adds to the suspense. A unique addition to Holocaust literature.



Reviews

“It’s a great book, energetic, vivid, and amazing in the scope of its appeal. In the space of three days it had been read, and loved, by everybody in my house. The dog felt left out.”
Roddy Doyle


“A small wonder of a book… this is what fiction is supposed to do”
The Guardian


“An extraordinary tale of friendship and the horrors of war… raw literary talent at its best”
Irish Independent


“One thing is clear: this book will not go gently into any good night”
Observer


“Packed with overtones that remain in the imagination”
The Independent


“An extraordinary book”
Irish Examiner


“Powerful and unsettling… as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank”
USA Today


“Deeply affecting… beautiful and sparsely written”
Wall Street Journal