The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

I started the book because it was short and seemed like one of those titles everyone was reading and talking about (more likely because of the film release).

The idea behind it - to view the Holocaust from the eyes of an unknowing child - is sound enough but executed extremely poorly.

Why would a boy who doesn't seem to understand what is going on around him interpret his native language German into English words? Fury, Out and With are English words, not German ones. It is ridiculous to enforce an English perspective of language onto the character of a German boy.

The rest of the plot plods along until the inevitable conclusion that anyone could predict with plenty of time to spare. Overall it seems quite like a get-rich-quick attempt off the back of a heinous period of our history.