![]() ![]() ![]() But first he is eager to talk about his return to the territory of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, his 2006 fable about the friendship between Bruno, the nine-year-old son of the German commandant of Auschwitz, and Shmuel, a boy prisoner. We will return in a moment to the events of a little over three years ago that turned Boyne, previously a literary Midas acclaimed for children’s books and adult novels alike, into a online hate-figure. “I’m told that a couple of days after the Salman Rushdie stabbing, somebody said on Twitter: ‘If John Boyne is next, the drinks are on me’,” he reveals when I talk to him over coffee at his publisher’s office. To judge by social media, he is also one of the most loathed. John Boyne is one of the best-loved writers of his generation. ![]()
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