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The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them.This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons. One with his father's violence in his blood. One with his mother's artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning.Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life amongst the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold.From the award-winning author of The Heart's invisible Furies comes The Shadow of My Shadow, an epic tale of humanity.

Cyril Avery n’est pas un vrai Avery et il ne le sera jamais – ou du moins, c’est ce que lui répètent ses parents adoptifs. Mais s’il n’est pas un vrai Avery, qui est-il ?

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with an unusual condition. Alfie is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place...

Els Brocket són uns perfectes avorrits i responsables i estan molt orgullosos de ser-ne. No poden deixar d’arrufar el nas davant tot el que sigui diferent. Però els Brocket no han tingut sort: des de

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day. Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret mission. Then, while shining shoes at King's Cross Station, Alfie unexpectedly sees his father's name - on a sheaf of papers belonging to a military doctor. Bewildered and confused, Alfie realises his father is in a hospital close by - a hospital treating soldiers with shell-shock. Alfie isn't sure what shell-shock is, but is determined to rescue his father from this strange, unnerving place...

El classic de John Boyne sobre l'amistat i la perdua de la innocencia de Bruno i Shmuel, en un dels pitjors moments de la Historia.Best-seller internacional amb 11 milions d'exemplars venuts.Traduit a 54 llenguesBerlin 1942. La guerra no afecta gaire la vida de Bruno, un noi de nou anys que viu en un barri residencial. Pero un bon dia arriba a casa i es troba totes les coses empaquetades: el seu pare, membre de l'elit militar, ha rebut un nou desti i es veu obligat a marxar i instal·lar-se amb tota la familia en una area rural mig deserta i molt depriment. Bruno s'avorreix i passa els dies obsessionat amb una tanca que s'alça davant la finestra de la seva habitacio. Fins que no coneix Shmuel, el noi del pijama de ratlles, que viu a l'altra banda del filferro espinos, Bruno ni tan sol no compren que ja no es a Alemanya sino a Polonia. Tampoc no es conscient del que passa a la vida de Shmuel fins que es massa tard per escapar els horrors que es viuen a l'altre costat de la tanca.

London, September 1919: Der junge Tristan Sadler steigt in einen Zug. Er fahrt nach Norwich, um sich dort mit Marian Bancroft, der Schwester seines toten Kameraden Will, zu treffen. Will und Tristan waren Freunde, die Seite an Seite im Ersten Weltkrieg gekampft haben bis Will eine folgenschwere Entscheidung traf, die er fur den Rest seines Lebens bereuen sollte ...

Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. He has seen friends stand trial, colleagues jailed, the lives of young parishioners destroyed and has become nervous of venturing out in public for fear of disapproving stares and insulting remarks. But when a family tragedy opens wounds from his past, he is forced to confront the demons that have raged within a once respected institution and recognise his own complicity in their propagation. It has taken John Boyne fifteen years and twelve novels to write about his home country of Ireland but he has done so now in his most powerful novel to date, a novel about blind dogma and moral courage, and about the dark places where the two can meet. At once courageous and intensely personal, A History of Loneliness confirms Boyne as one of the most searching chroniclers of his generation.

Ein neuer Roman von Bestsellerautor John BoyneEs gibt sie, diese winzigen Momente, die ein Leben fur immer verandern. Fur Danny und seine Familie kommt ein solcher Moment, als Dannys Mutter einen kleinen Jungen mit dem Auto anfahrt. Qualende Schuldgefuhle lassen sie nicht mehr los, die Familie droht auseinanderzubrechen.Der Text besticht durch eine spannende Handlung und die groartig eingefangene Atmosphare. John Boyne erzahlt unmittelbar aus der Sicht des zwolfjahrigen Danny und schafft so einen eindringlichen Roman uber Schuld, Schicksal und die Kunst, zu verzeihen.

London, 1936. Owen Montignac, der attraktive, charismatische Spross aus gutem Haus, erwartet bang die Testamentsverlesung seines unlangst verstorbenen Onkels. Doch Owen wird nicht berucksichtigt. Die Alleinerbin ist seine schone Cousine Stella,zu der er eine etwas fragwurdige Zuneigung empfindet. Zudem plagen ihn hohe Spielschulden - und so ersinnt Owen einen teuflischen Plan.

Berlijn, 1943. De negenjarige Bruno verhuist met zijn familie naar een plek ver weg. Hun nieuwe huis staat naast een hoog hek, een hek dat Bruno afschermt van de vreemde mensen die hij daarachter ziet bewegen. Op een van zijn ontdekkingstochten ontmoet Bruno een jongen wiens leven zeer verschilt van dat van hem. Toch worden de jongens vrienden, maar het is een vriendschap die niet zonder gevolgen blijft. De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama is nu magistraal verfilmd als The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Von einem, der auszog, den Mut zu findenEines Morgens lauft Noah von zu Hause fort. Ein einsamer Waldweg fuhrt ihn zu einem Spielzeugladen voller Zauber und Magie. Hier lernt Noah einen sehr ungewohnlichen Spielzeugmacher kennen.Der alte Mann hat viel zu erzahlen. In seiner Geschichte geht es um Abenteuer, Wunder und gebrochene Versprechen. So nimmt er Noah mit auf eine Reise.Eine Reise, die Noahs Leben verandern wird.Und die auch unser Leben verandern konnte.Eine marchenhafte Parabel uber den Trost des Erzahlens.

This was set in December 23, 1787, Deptford on the south bank of the river Thames. A 15-year-old boy, Billy, has got into trouble with the police on one too many occasions and is about to be sent to prison when an offer is put to him - a ship has been refitted over the last few months and is about to set sail with an important mission. The boy who was expected to serve as the captain's personal valet has been struck down with an illness and a replacement must be found immediately. The deal is struck and he finds himself onboard, meeting the captain, just as the ship sets sail. The ship is HMS Bounty, the captain is William Bligh, and their destination is Tahiti.

Der neunjährige Bruno weiß nichts von der Endlösung oder dem Holocaust. Er ist unberührt von den entsetzlichen Grausamkeiten, die sein Land dem europäischen Volk zufügt. Er weiß nur, dass man ihn von seinem gemütlichen Zuhause in Berlin in ein Haus verpflanzt hat, das in einer öden Gegend liegt, in der er nichts unternehmen kann und keiner mit ihm spielt. Bis er Schmuel kennenlernt, einen Jungen, der ein seltsam ähnliches Dasein auf der anderen Seite des angrenzenden Drahtzauns fristet und der, wie alle Menschen dort, einen gestreiften Pyjama trägt. Durch die Freundschaft mit Schmuel werden Bruno, dem unschuldigen Jungen, mit der Zeit die Augen geöffnet. Und während er erforscht, wovon er unwissentlich ein Teil ist, gerät er unvermeidlich in die Fänge des schrecklichen Geschehens.

Leggere questo libro significa fare un viaggio. Prendere per mano, o meglio farsi prendere per mano da Bruno, un bambino di nove anni, e cominciare a camminare. Presto o tardi si arriverà davanti a un recinto. Uno di quei recinti che esistono in tutto il mondo, uno di quelli che ci si augura di non dover mai varcare. Siamo nel 1942 e il padre di Bruno è il comandante di un campo di sterminio. Non sarà dunque difficile comprendere che cosa sia questo recinto di rete metallica, oltre il quale si vede una costruzione in mattoni rossi sormontata da un altissimo camino. Ma sarà amaro e doloroso, com'è doloroso e necessario accompagnare Bruno fino a quel recinto, fino alla sua amicizia con Shmuel, un bambino polacco che sta dall'altro lato della rete, nel recinto, prigioniero. John Boyne ci consegna una storia che dimostra meglio di qualsiasi spiegazione teorica come in una guerra tutti sono vittime, e tra loro quelli a cui viene sempre negata la parola sono proprio i bambini.