John Boyne is a prolific
chronicler of the vulnerable. Since the publication 15 years ago of
his debut novel, The Thief of Time, he has written
tales of abandoned children and threats from the spirit world (This
House Is Haunted); of young men imperilled by secrecy, addiction and
war (The Absolutist; Next of Kin); of families shattered by terrible
accidents (The Dare); and, in his internationally bestselling The Boy
in the Striped Pyjamas, of two young boys, Bruno and Schmel, who forge
a forbidden friendship while living in the shadow of Nazism.
This preoccupation with the lives of the unprotected and the unprotectable can also be found in Boyne's most recent novel, A History of Loneliness, and in Beneath the Earth, which is his first collection of short stories.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/beneath-the-earth-john-boyne-review-striped-pyjamas/
This preoccupation with the lives of the unprotected and the unprotectable can also be found in Boyne's most recent novel, A History of Loneliness, and in Beneath the Earth, which is his first collection of short stories.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/beneath-the-earth-john-boyne-review-striped-pyjamas/
