The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you’ve found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like Ameri...
The suggestion, however, regarding my age – that I am perhaps not quite fifty years old – would flatter me immensely. For it is many years now since I have been able to say in all honesty that I have...
La niñez se mide a través de sonidos, olores y suspiros, antes de que aparezca la sombra obscura de la razón. (John Betjeman)
Did I ever tell you that they nearly cut my dick off?’ ‘No,’ I said, uncertain whether this was something that had really happened or something he was misremembering in his delirium. ‘It’s true,’ he s...
A man was standing at the end of the hallway, just outside an open door, from where a great light shone, illuminating him almost as a god.
15 בנובמבר 2014 The Dot That Became a Speck That Became a Blob That Became a Figure That Became a Boyפילוסופיה.מרגשת.על.גימוד.האחר.שהופכת.לראות.את.האחר.כבן.אדםNotes From: John Boyne. Boy in the Stripe...
You're a bit of an oddball, Jonathan,' I said. 'Has anyone ever told you that?''Nineteen people this year alone,' he said. 'And it's only May.
Whenever I look at Edna O’Brien, continued Mr. Denby-Denby, I get the impression that she wants to put every man she meets across her knee and give them a good spanking until they show her the proper...
The first thing he noticed was how quiet it was. This was nothing like the kind of quiet he heard when he woke up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. When that happened, there were always st...
Still, I had resolved to sit and talk with him and that is what I would do. He neither offered permission nor withheld it regarding the curtains, so I stepped over to the window and pulled them apart,...
Shmuel blinked and shook his head. It was quite extraordinary. If it wasn’t for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it wo...
Bruno feel very uncomfortable because, in his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.
After all, the clamour of the crowded public house is infinitely more welcoming than the stillness of the empty home.
When I make mistakes I get punished,' insisted Bruno, irritated by the fact that the rules that always applied to children never seemed to apply to grown-ups at all (despite the fact that they were th...
15 בנובמבר 2014 be given an explanation for why they had all been forced to leave their comfortable home and come to this terrible place, which must have been the greatest wrong ever committed to him...
No man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It’s like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you’ve d...
Answer me!'Shouted Lieutenant Kotler. 'Did you steal something from that fridge?' 'No, sir. He gave it to me,'said Shmuel, tears welling up in his eyes as he throw a sideways glance at Bruno. 'He's my...
After all, the great joy of literature, as opposed to politics or religion, is that it embraces differing opinions, it encourages debate, it allows us to have heated conversations with our closest fri...
14 בנובמבר 2014 Out-With?’ asked Bruno. ‘What’s an Out-With?’‘It’s not an Out-With, Bruno,’ said Gretel with a sigh. ‘It’s just Out-With.’‘Well, what’s Out-With then?’ he repeated. ‘Out with what?עיוו...