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Oct 11, 2017bronteside rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
John Boyne’s latest delivers like its predecessors: A History of Violence and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas The novel scans decades, connecting the various lives within six degrees of separation. The characters slam up against one another, tossed around by the iron clad cruelties of the omnipresent Catholic Church and the vagaries of the street. There is a darkness to each life, but it’s ultimately undercut by the promise of aging and time. Bonus? Wonderful, laugh-out-loud dialogue . Pages and pages of it. If for some reason , you can’t get beyond the first chapter - that would be enough. Written with thunder- you know you are in the presence of great literary , and very Irish hands.