John Boyne

Kaunis ja kauhea tarina sota-ajasta AuschwitzissaJohn Boynen Poika raidallisessa pyjamassa on nuortenkirja, joka sopii myös aikuisten kirjaksi. Lähdet matkalle Brunon kanssa, kun luet tämän kirjan. Kävelet Brunon kanssa Auschwitzin aidalle. Toivottavasti sinun ei koskaan tarvitse elää sellaisen aidan lähellä. Poika raidallisessa pyjamassa on tarina 9-vuotiaasta Brunosta. Brunon isä on natsiupseeri, ja koko Brunon perhe muuttaa Auschwitziin. Yksinäinen Bruno löytää ystävän keskitysleirin aidan takaa. Mitä tapahtuu ystäville, joista toisen perhe on natseja ja toisen juutalaisia? John Boyne (s. 1971) on irlantilainen kirjailija. Hän on kirjoittanut useita romaaneja, novelleja ja nuortenkirjoja. Poika raidallisessa pyjamassa on Boynen tunnetuin teos. Kirjasta on myös tehty elokuva.

Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: 'For Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite'. The most feted playwright of his day famously sued for libel, which led to his arrest, criminal prosecution and ultimately prison. From then on, his gilded existence spiralled into public disgrace, humiliation and an early death. But what if he had simply ignored the insult? What direction might his life have taken? This is the premise of John Boyne's extraordinary new novel, The Weight of Angels. Rather than dying in penury in Paris at the age of forty-six, what if he had lived to bear witness to the momentous events and cataclysmic changes of the first part of the twentieth century, and even influence some of them? What if the second half of his life were as celebrated, dramatic, tumultuous and exhilarating as the first? In imagining the life that Oscar Wilde never had, John Boyne has written one of the great what-if stories of modern literature, giving the great Anglo-Irish poet and playwright a fresh new voice and the opportunity to take an entirely different path.

Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquis of Queensbury left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only his name and five words: ‘For Oscar Wilde, posing Somdomite’. The most feted playwright of his day famously sued for libel, which led to his arrest, criminal prosecution and ultimately prison. From then on, his gilded existence spiralled into public disgrace, humiliation and an early death. But what if he had simply ignored the insult? What direction might his life have taken? This is the premise of John Boyne’s extraordinary new novel, The Weight of Angels. Rather than dying in penury in Paris at the age of forty-six, what if he had lived to bear witness to the momentous events and cataclysmic changes of the first part of the twentieth century, and even influence some of them? What if the second half of his life were as celebrated, dramatic, tumultuous and exhilarating as the first? In imagining the life that Oscar Wilde never had, John Boyne has written one of the great what-if stories of modern literature, giving the great Anglo-Irish poet and playwright a fresh new voice and the opportunity to take an entirely different path.

Un thriller psicol gico de altos vuelos. Una s tira de la ambici n y el mundo literario Hasta d nde est dispuesto a llegar un novelista para hallar la inspiraci n que no tiene? Saborear las mieles del triunfo merece sacrificar el alma? A trav s de un personaje tan seductor como absolutamente desalmado, John Boyne aborda estas preguntas en Una escalera hacia el cielo, una novela formidable que es tambi n una magn fica inmersi n en el c rculo de los escritores, con sus dudas, sus sue os, sus alegr as y sus miserias. Maurice Swift quiere ser escritor, pero es incapaz de crear historias. No tiene imaginaci n, aunque s un rasgo que ha aprovechado desde su adolescencia, cuando descubri que era irresistiblemente atractivo para hombres y mujeres. Por qu no utilizar esa ventaja para conseguir su objetivo? Un encuentro casual con el conocido novelista Erich Ackermann en un hotel de Berl n a finales de los a os ochenta, supone su primera gran oportunidad, y enseguida inicia una relaci n con aquel hombre mayor tan famoso como solitario, sonsac ndole un terrible secreto muy bien guardado de su pasado durante la guerra: material perfecto para su primera novela. Alcanzado el xito, Swift descubre que ya no podr detenerse ante nada con tal de mantenerse en la cumbre: necesita m s historias, y para ello deber descubrir otras presas, destruir y devorar otras vidas. Ambientada en el mundo editorial, esta novela ofrece una mirada atractiva y mordaz a lo que a menudo implica la llamada escalera hacia el cielo de la gloria literaria, con sus premios, promociones y envidias sin fin. Con un excelente juego de perspectivas, abundantes dosis de humor negro y el constante cuestionamiento moral del protagonista, John Boyne nos regala una experiencia de lectura absolutamente cautivadora. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "A satire of writerly ambition wrapped in a psychological thriller . . . An homage to Patricia Highsmith, Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe, but its execution is entirely Boyne's own."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND MINNEAPOLIS STAR TRIBUNE Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesn't have is talent--but he's not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They don't need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect opportunity: a chance encounter with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann. He quickly ingratiates himself with the powerful - but desperately lonely - older man, teasing out of Erich a terrible, long-held secret about his activities during the war. Perfect material for Maurice's first novel. Once Maurice has had a taste of literary fame, he knows he can stop at nothing in pursuit of that high. Moving from the Amalfi Coast, where he matches wits with Gore Vidal, to Manhattan and London, Maurice hones his talent for deceit and manipulation, preying on the talented and vulnerable in his cold-blooded climb to the top. But the higher he climbs, the further he has to fall. . . . Sweeping across the late twentieth century, A Ladder to the Sky is a fascinating portrait of a relentlessly immoral man, a tour de force of storytelling, and the next great novel from an acclaimed literary virtuoso.

Human life is governed by the elements - water, earth, fire and air. They are fundamental to our existence. They sustain us, but they also challenge us. In The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction: a quartet of intertwined narratives, each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim. From a mother on the run from her past, to a young football star on trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son, the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives. Boyne's most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience. In crisp, spellbinding prose, he navigates a complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty, at every step challenging us to confront our own perceptions of who we are and what made us that way.

From bestselling author John Boyne, a gripping and profound exploration of guilt, blame, trauma, and the human capacity for redemption. In The Elements, acclaimed Irish novelist John Boyne has created an epic saga that weaves together four interconnected narratives, each representing a different perspective on crime: the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator, and the victim. The narrative follows a mother on the run from her past, a young soccer star facing a trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and a father on a transformative journey with his son. Each is somehow connected to the next, and as the story unfolds, their lives intersect in unimaginable ways. Boyne's most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving investigation of why and how we allow crime to occur. With masterful, spellbinding prose, he navigates this complex subject with extraordinary empathy and unflinching honesty. The story resonates on a deeply emotional level, challenging readers to confront their own conceptions of guilt and innocence at every step. Amid the wildly engrossing storytelling, the book ultimately asks: What would you do when faced with the unthinkable?

El libro que conmovi a millones de lectores. Estimado lector, estimada lectora: Aunque el uso habitual de un texto como ste es describir las caracter sticas de la obra, por una vez nos tomaremos la libertad de hacer una excepci n a la norma establecida. No s lo porque el libro que tienes en tus manos es muy dif cil de definir, sino porque estamos convencidos de que explicar su contenido estropear a la experiencia de la lectura. Creemos que es importante empezar esta novela sin saber de qu trata. No obstante, si decides embarcarte en la aventura, debes saber que acompa ar s a Bruno, un ni o de nueve a os, cuando se muda con su familia a una casa junto a una cerca. Cercas como sa existen en muchos sitios del mundo, s lo deseamos que no te encuentres nunca con una. Por ltimo, cabe aclarar que este libro no es s lo para adultos; tambi n lo pueden leer, y ser a recomendable que lo hicieran, ni os a partir de los trece a os de edad. --El editor ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The book that moved millions of readers. Dear reader, Although the usual purpose of a text like this one is to describe what the book is about, we will take the liberty of making an exception to the established norm--just this once. Not only because this book is very difficult to define, but also because we are convinced that explaining its content would impair the reading experience. We believe it is important to begin this novel without knowing what it is about. However, if you choose to embark on this journey, you should know that you will be accompanying Bruno, a nine-year-old boy, as he moves with his family to a house near a fence. Fences like that one exists in many places around the world--we only hope you never come across one. Finally, it should be noted that this book is not just for adults; children aged thirteen and older can, and should, read it as well. The Editor

From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son. Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it’s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn’t expecting them. Unsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. This trip could bind them closer together, or tear them further apart. In this penetrating examination of action and consequence, fault and attribution, acceptance and resolution, John Boyne gives us a redemptive story of a father and a son on a moving journey to mend their troubled lives.______Praise for John Boyne'One of the greatest craftsmen in contemporary literature' Colum McCann'Among the world's greatest storytellers' Donal Ryan'One of the most assured novelists of his generation' Observer

Boyne mantiene vivo el inter s hasta las ltimas p ginas, en las que un inesperado desenlace dejar , una vez m s, una profunda huella en los lectores. Mientras acompa a a su esposa Zoya, que agoniza en un hospital de Londres, Georgi Danilovich Y chmenev rememora la vida que han compartido durante sesenta y cinco a os, una vida marcada por un gran secreto que nunca ha salido a la luz. Los recuerdos se agolpan en una sucesi n de im genes imborrables, a partir de aquel lejano d a en que Georgi abandon su m sero pueblo natal para formar parte de la guardia personal de Alexis Romanov, el nico hijo var n del zar Nicol s II. As , la fastuosa vida en el Palacio de Invierno, las intimidades de la familia imperial, los hechos que precedieron a la revoluci n bolchevique y, finalmente, la reclusi n y posterior ejecuci n de los Romanov se entremezclan con el dur simo exilio en Par s y Londres en una hermosa historia de un amor improbable, al mismo tiempo un apasionante relato hist rico y una conmovedora tragedia ntima. Tras asombrar al p blico y la cr tica con El ni o con el pijama de rayas--libro de ficci n m s vendido en Espa a en 2007 y 2008--y seducir a miles de lectores con su siguiente obra, Mot n en la Bounty, John Boyne vuelve a demostrar un especial don narrativo para tratar grandes acontecimientos hist ricos desde perspectivas desconocidas, proyectando sobre lo ya sabido una luz nueva y sorprendente. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From the author of The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanovs. Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past--a past of death, suffering, and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living in England with his beloved wife, Zoya, Georgy prepares to make one final journey back to the Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia that both destroyed and defined him. As Georgy remembers days gone by, we are transported to St. Petersburg, to the Winter Palace of the czar, in the early twentieth century--a time of change, threat, and bloody revolution. As Georgy overturns the most painful stone of all, we uncover the story of the house of special purpose.

Eta istorija nachinaetsja s semi. Otets, mat i dva syna, u odnogo v krovi zhestokost i voinstvennost ottsa, u drugogo - artistizm i mjagkost materi. Odin syn ujdet. Vtoroj ostanetsja. Postepenno k etim chetverym nachnut prisoedinjatsja vse novye i novye personazhi, postupki kotorykh budut napravljat i opredeljat sudby dvukh bratev. No eto lish nachalo... Istorii dvukh bratev i vsekh, kto s nimi svjazan, protjanutsja cherez dve tysjachi let. V Palestine v god Rozhdestva Khristova nachinaetsja grandioznoe puteshestvie - cherez epokhi, strany, kultury i dazhe zvezdy. Mir menjaetsja, menjajutsja landshafty, odezhda, manera govorit, ne menjajutsja lish ljudi, oni vse tak zhe oburevaemy strastjami, terjajut golovu ot ljubvi, oderzhimy mestju, oni slaby, silny, glupy, blagorodny, zhestoki, sostradatelny... "Mir, kotoryj nas okruzhaet, mozhet menjatsja, no nashi chuvstva ostajutsja neizmennymi", - skazhet geroj Bojna, pytajas otyskat put k vratam, za kotorymi sijaet nedostupnaja ljudjam mudrost. Novyj roman Dzhona Bojna - epicheskaja pritcha, rasskazyvajuschaja istoriju chelovechestva i istoriju kazhdogo iz nas. Originalnaja, ni na chto ne pokhozhaja, dramatichnaja, ironichnaja kniga o prirode cheloveka. Perevodchik: Elena Poletskaja

Un pack conmovedor que re ne las historias de Bruno, un ni o testigo del Holocausto, y de su hermana Gretel, que muchos a os despu s de la Segunda Guerra Mundial debe saldar cuentas con el pasado de su familia. El ni o con el pijama de rayasBruno, un ni o alem n de nueve a os, no sabe nada de la Soluci n Final ni del Holocausto. Lo nico que sabe es que lo han trasladado con su familia de un c modo hogar en Berl n a una casa en una zona desolada donde no hay nada que hacer ni nadie con quien jugar. Pero entonces conoce a Shmuel, un ni o que lleva una extra a existencia al otro lado de la alambrada contigua y que, como el resto de los que viven all , viste un pijama de rayas. La amistad con Shmuel llevar a Bruno de la inocenci a a la revelaci n, enfrent ndolo a la terrible realidad de su poca. Todas las piezas rotasGretel Fernsby, la heraman de Bruno, es ahora una anciana de 91 a os que vive en un apartamento en una de las zonas m s acomodadas de Londres. Cuando una joven familia se muda al piso de abajo, Gretel entabla amistad con Henry, el hijo peque o de la pareja. Una noche, tras ser testigo de una violenta discusi n entre la madre de Henry y su dominante padre, Gretel se enfrenta a la oportunidad de expiar la culpa, el dolor y el remordimiento y hacer algo por salvar a un ni o, por segunda vez en su vida. Pero para ello se ver obligada a revelar su verdadera identidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A boxed set that brings together the touching stories of Bruno, a child witness of the Holocaust, and his sister Gretel, who many years after the Second World War must come to terms with her family's past. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Two young boys encounter the best and worst of humanity during the Holocaust in this powerful read. Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different from his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences. All the Broken Places A stunning tour de force about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and a present in which it is never too late for bravery. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve. She doesn't talk about the grim postwar years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich's most notorious extermination camps. Immersive, chilling, unputdownable, All the Broken Places moves back and forth in time between Gretel's girlhood in Germany and present-day London.

An affectionately illustrated bedtime story with witty wordplay that will also make grown-up readers smile – The TimesThere once was a boy called Jeremy GraceWho had a remarkable interest in space. He was quiet and shy, very often alone,Just him and his dog, spending time on their own. Jeremy dreams of journeying through space, but nobody believes in him . . . Nobody, that is, but Maxwell, his incredible dancing dog who encourages him to reach for the stars. The pair embark on an out-of-this-world adventure - but when they are faced with an incoming comet catastrophe, it takes bravery, daring and a little bit of dancing to save the day. Heartwarming and inspirational with a touch of magic, this read-aloud rhyming picture-book story encourages children to follow their dreams. This is the picture book debut from John Boyne, the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The illustrations are by award-winning rising star Ashling Lindsay. John Boyne, The Bookseller bestseller, May 2024