Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us . . .Nine-year-old Bruno knows
nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the
appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All
he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house
in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until
he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side
of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a
uniform of striped