Two contrasting novels this month, both set in the 1940's but their subject matter couldn't be more different!
The Boy in Striped Pajamas is a 2006 novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. The story is of an eight year old boy who moves with his family to near a Nazi concentration camp where he befriends Shmuel, a Jewish boy.
One reviewer wrote '... It is elegant story-telling with emotional impact and an ending that in true fairytale style is grotesquely clever.' Others have criticised it's historical inaccuracies. Read it and make up your own mind.
Breakfast at Tiffany's is a brilliant glimmer of the excitment of 40's New York starring the brashly beautiful Holly Golightly who entrances everyman she meets. Norman Mailer wrote
"Truman Capote ...is the most perfect writer of my generation, he writes the best sentences word for word, rhythm upon rhythm. I would not have changed two words in Breakfast at Tiffany's which will become a small classic"
Happy reading!
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