The Boy at the Top of the Mountain
- Author John Boyne
- Narrator Alex Wyndham
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Run Time 5 hours and 21 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction.
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What to expect
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When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler.
Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and is thrown into an increasingly dangerous new world: a world of terror, secrets and betrayal, from which he may never be able to escape.
©John Boyne 2015 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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It’s impossible to put down: devastating and devastatingly good, one of my top three children’s novels of the year so far . . . A difficult story to pull off, but with his perfect pacing, lack of sentimentality and refusal to submit to a neat end, Boyne has won me over – all over again
The Times -
A remarkable feat . . . Compelling
Guardian -
Disturbingly vivid, utterly readable and appealing to audiences of all ages
The Bookbag -
There is a sureness and a simplicity to the writing that is very impressive . . . In The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, Boyne has delivered a powerful account of how one boy was seduced by Hitler and Nazism and paid the price. The final pages, in which he meets the Jewish friend of his boyhood and seeks redemption, are very moving. Younger readers will lament the corruption of Pierrot; older ones will perceive what Boyne is trying to tell us: if this could happen to Pierrot, it could happen to us
Irish Independent -
An affecting morality tale . . . It is the chilling portrayal of adolescent corruption and atonement that lingers
Daily Mail
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