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All the Broken Places is a sequel to Boyne's 2006 book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and follows Gretel, the now 91-year-old older sister of Bruno from that book. Gretel has lived in London for decades, never speaking of her childhood in Nazi Germany as the daughter of a concentration camp commandant.
The book was a best seller, topping the list in Spain for both 2007 and 2008, and reaching number one on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2008. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2008, a ballet in 2017 and an opera entitled A Child in Striped Pyjamas in 2023. A sequel, All the Broken Places, was published in 2022.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas was published in 2006. The book has sold over seven million copies worldwide. [ 15 ] A Heyday / Miramax film adaptation, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas , was shot in Budapest in mid-2007 and released in late 2008.
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has a 64% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 142 reviews, with an average rating of 6.30/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "A touching and haunting family film that deals with the Holocaust in an arresting and unusual manner, and packs a brutal final punch of a twist."
Although The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is Scanlon's feature film debut, [3] he did act before. He appeared in a 10-minute short film titled The Eye of the Butterfly (which led to him being suggested to the casting director of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ) [ 4 ] and in a 2007 episode of the Peter Serafinowicz Show .
Beginning his career as a child actor, Butterfield first achieved recognition as the lead of the historical drama film The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008). He continued to headline films during the 2010s, starring in the adventure drama Hugo (2011), the science fiction film Ender's Game (2013), the drama X+Y (2014), and the fantasy Miss ...
The film was released first in the UK as The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and subsequently released in the US as The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Most reviews and descriptions of the film used as references in this article use the US title. This article uses the UK title as that is the first country of release and the original title.
To prepare for the task, he analyzed samples of several popular series for boys, [3] probably including Tom Swift, "Roy Rockwood", and Carl H. Claudy's stories for The American Boy magazine. [4] By September, Heinlein's agent was able to report that the YA editor at Scribner's, Alice Dalgliesh, had liked Heinlein's draft of the first book. [5]