Just finished reading 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne (TM, thank you for recommending it to me) which I found to be very powerful but also disturbing and unsettling. The language of the book and its simplicity suggest that it's written for children, but I think that it's only a disguise, or at least that an adult can understand it on a totally different level. I've read that some people found the trivialization and oversimplification of certain historical facts inappropriate but other than that it was received very well. I, for one, although I certainly am in no position to judge about the historical accuracy of the book, feel that it's a very valuable story that might prove especially effective in getting a certain message across to the new generations. The author describes it as a fable and it seems to be a fair thing to do. All in all, I hope this book can serve as one of the tiny yet indispensable rocks in the foundation of our historical and social consciousness that will ensure that we don't forget the great mistakes of the past and never repeat them in the future.
[Originally posted on Facebook on March 6, 2014]
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