This book irritated me more than other in ages. The nine year old protagonist's naivete about who Hitler is, let alone the Jews, is not believable. The conclusion is too neat, and would never happen. The little boy in the camp would never invite anyone to visit him in there, seeing what he has seen. The author's referral to the story as a "fable" sounds to me like an excuse for suspending plausibility. This book has been very successful, but I cannot entirely understand why.
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