New Releases by John Boyne

Barnaby Brocket is an ordinary 8-year-old boy in most ways, but he was born different in one important way: he floats. Unlike everyone else, Barnaby does not obey the law of gravity. His parents, who have a horror of being noticed, want desperately for Barnaby to be normal, but he can''t help who he is. And when the unthinkable happens, Barnaby finds himself on a journey that takes him all over the world. From Brazil to New York, Canada to Ireland, and even to space, the floating boy meets all sorts of different people—and discovers who he really is along the way. This whimsical novel will delight middle graders, and make readers of all ages question the meaning of normal.

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Eight-year-old Noah''s problems seem easier to deal with if he doesn''t think about them. So he runs away, taking an untrodden path through the forest. Before long he come across a shop. But this is no ordinary shop. It is a toyshop, full of the most amazing toys, and brimming with the most wonderful magic.

Boyne mantiene vivo el interés hasta las últimas páginas, en las que un inesperado desenlace dejará, una vez más, una profunda huella en los lectores. Mientras acompaña a su esposa Zoya, que agoniza en un hospital de Londres, Georgi Danilovich Yáchmenev rememora la vida que han compartido durante sesenta y cinco años, una vida marcada por un gran secreto que nunca ha salido a la luz. Los recuerdos se agolpan en una sucesión de imágenes imborrables, a partir de aquel lejano día en que Georgi abandonó su mísero pueblo natal para formar parte de la guardia personal de Alexis Romanov, el único hijo varón del zar Nicolás II. Así, la fastuosa vida en el Palacio de Invierno, las intimidades de la familia imperial, los hechos que precedieron a la revolución bolchevique y, finalmente, la reclusión y posterior ejecución de los Romanov se entremezclan con el durísimo exilio en París y Londres en una hermosa historia de un amor improbable, al mismo tiempo un apasionante relato histórico y una conmovedora tragedia íntima. Tras asombrar al público y la crítica con El niño con el pijama de rayas - el libro de ficción más vendido en España en 2007 y 2008- y seducir a miles de lectores con su siguiente obra, Motín en la Bounty, John Boyne vuelve a demostrar un especial don narrativo para tratar grandes acontecimientos históricos desde perspectivas desconocidas, proyectando sobre lo ya sabido una luz nueva y sorprendente.

Die Geschichte von »Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama« ist schwer zu beschreiben. Normalerweise geben wir an dieser Stelle ein paar Hinweise auf den Inhalt, aber bei diesem Buch - so glauben wir - ist es besser, wenn man vorher nicht weiß, worum es geht. Wer zu lesen beginnt, begibt sich auf eine Reise mit einem neunjährigen Jungen namens Bruno. (Und doch ist es kein Buch für Neunjährige.) Früher oder später kommt er mit Bruno an einen Zaun. Zäune wie dieser existieren auf der ganzen Welt.

Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past—a past of death, suffering and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living in England with his beloved wife Zoya, Georgy prepares to make one final journey back to the Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia that both destroyed and defined him. As Georgy remembers days gone by, we are transported to St. Petersburg in the early 20th century, to the Winter Palace of the Tsar. A time of change, threat and bloody revolution. And as Georgy overturns the most painful stone of all, we uncover the story of the house of special purpose.

El clàssic de John Boyne sobre l''amistat i la pèrdua de la innocència de Bruno i Shmuel, en un dels pitjors moments de la Història. Berlín 1942. La guerra no afecta gaire la vida de Bruno, un noi de nou anys que viu en un barri residencial. Però un bon dia arriba a casa i es troba totes les coses empaquetades: el seu pare, membre de l''elit militar, ha rebut un nou destí i es veu obligat a marxar i instal·lar-se amb tota la família en una àrea rural mig deserta i molt depriment. Bruno s''avorreix i passa els dies obsessionat amb una tanca que s''alça davant la finestra de la seva habitació. Fins que no coneix Schmuel, el noi del pijama de ratlles, que viu a l''altra banda del filferro espinós, Bruno ni tan sol no comprèn que ja no és a Alemanya sinó a Polònia. Tampoc no és conscient del que passa a la vida de Schmuel fins que és massa tard per escapar els horrors que es viuen a l''altre costat de la tanca. L''honestedat narrativa, la congruència dels personatges i la progressió magistral de la trama, doten aquesta novel·la d''una qualitat literària molt humana i d''una força narrativa captivadora.

At the start of his school holidays, Danny Delaney is looking forward to a trouble-free summer. But he knows that something terrible has happened when his mother returns home one afternoon with two policemen. There has been an accident. Mrs Delaney has hit a small boy with her car. The boy is in a coma at the local hospital and nobody knows if he will every wake up. Danny''s mother closes herself off, full of guilt. Danny and his father are left to pick up the pieces of their broken family.

Two young boys encounter the best and worst of humanity during the Holocaust in this powerful read that USA Today called "as memorable an introduction to the subject as The Diary of Anne Frank.” Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different from his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences.

Després de l''èxit aclaparador d''El noi del pijama de ratlles, convertit ja en un llibre imprescindible, arriba Motí al Bounty, una esplèndida novel·la d''aventures emmarcada en la tradició més noble i entranyable del gènere. Trepidant, vital, commovedora i emocionant, Motí al Bounty narra les aventures i desventures de John Jacob Turnstile, un jove orfe de 14 anys que sobreviu a base d''esgarrapar les butxaques dels altres i buscar-se seriosos problemes amb la llei. Quan és a punt d''entrar a la presó, però, una oferta temptadora i arriscada el desvia: el criat del capità d''un vaixell que és a punt de salpar en una missió molt important no podrà viatjar. Així serà com Turnstile, un encantador i desvergonyit antiheroi amb el cor d''or i la paraula àgil, s''embarcarà al Bounty cap a unes terres llunyanes i un futur incert.

Alison Clarke returns home to her father''s house in rural Wexford with her movie star boyfriend, Nick. It is the first time she has been home in years. Her father does not approve of her boyfriend or her pregnancy, and Alison''s mother is struggling to keep them from fighting. There is a lot of tension in the house. Will father and daughter ever make up?

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called Out-With in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Deskribatzeko gaitza da Pijama marradunaz jantzitako mutikoaren istorioa. Eskuarki, argibideren bat edo beste eman ohi dugu liburuaren atzeko aldean; baina, oraingoan, iruditu zaigu liburuaren irakurketa zapuztuko genukeela. Uste dugu garrantzitsua dela gaiaz ezertxo ere jakin gabe has zaitezen liburua irakurtzen. “Ia ezinezkoa da bertan behera uztea, egunetan buruan jirabiraka dabilzkizun liburu horietakoa da, bakanetakoa”. Becky Stradwick, Borders, The Bookseller “Irudimenean iltzatuta geratzen diren esamoldez jositakoa... Irakurlearen buru doa nabarmen, azken orrialdeetan kolpe lazgarria ematen dion arte”. Nick Tucker, Independent “Liburu ezin bikainagoa... istorio zirraragarria, xumeki kontaturikoa”. Irish Examiner “Askotariko gogoetei eta iritziei bide ematen dien eleberria da; irakurtzeaz gain, hizpidera ekartzea eta bihotz ondoan gordetzea ere merezi duten liburuetakoa”. Achuka “Hain da liburu xumea eta, itxura batera, hain irakurterraza, ia-ia perfektua baita”. Irish Independent