This novel is a child"s-eye-view story. Its protagonist is Bruno, nine years old, who lives with his Mother and Father and sister Gretel (thirteen years old and a Hopeless Case), in Berlin in a very nice house. But one day the Fury comes to dinner and Father is given a new job and they all have to move to Out-With which is horrible and no fun at all ... at least until he meets Shmuel who wears striped pyjamas and becomes...