The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is now an opera – the case for adaptating the book that the Auschwitz Museum said ‘should be avoided’
Nathan Abrams, Bangor University Irish novelist John Boyne published his novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in 2006. The protagonist, eight-year-old German boy Bruno, has no idea that his father is the kommandant of a concentration camp during the second world war. Bruno and his family are sent to live with their