Rencontre avec John Boyne

A worldwide phenomenon, six million copies of John Boyne’s The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas (2006) have been sold in over forty languages and the story was made into a Mirimax feature film in 2008. John Boyne returns to the CCI this evening to launch the French translation of The Absolutist (2011), an intimate novel about the friendship of two men during the First World War. “Political, personal, powerful… A fiercely interrogative novel that asks not just what it means to be a man but also what it means to be a human being in the extreme circumstances of war.” (The Irish Times)

The most recent of Boyne’s nine novels for adults is A History of Loneliness (2014). His fifth for younger readers, The Boy at the Top of the Mountain, will be published this Autumn together with his first collection of short stories, Beneath the Earth.