My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A Memory : A couple of years ago, when my best friend drove rather fast, with me in the passenger seat, and I screamed for safety, he asked me, "Isn't this the best way to die: with your best friend for life? Or would you rather live without me?"
Those were my thoughts exactly when I reached the part of the book where I knew catastrophe was about to strike! If something must happen to Shmuel , then leaving Bruno behind would be heartless. And what would happen when he grew up to find out what "Out-With"was and who the "Fury" really was? The guilt would have ruined him and scarred him for life! It was kinder that he died innocent and ignorant with the one person, who it was best to die with.
Don't get me wrong: the story shattered me to pieces! And yes, I do think John Boyne is a monster to have created such an amazingly delicate apocryphal story of such innocent friendship with such delicate, profound imagination, and then bringing it down with a crash.
I do have to grant him the sense of poetic justice though: for a Nazi Commandant to finally feel some of the pain so many Jews went through...
Oh, go read it, if you've ever loved any friend of yours with a childlike innocence, with a winsome loyalty. This book is a bittersweet chocolate that you ought to taste!
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