Panther in the BasementHarcourt Brace, 1997 - 147 стор. Oz revisits here the Jerusalem of his childhood in the last days of the British mandate in Palestine. Our hero's name is Proffy (short for Professor), and he is twelve years old, his head filled with dreams of dying heroically in battle. Together with his friends Ben Hur and Chita, he spends the summer of 1947 as a member of a make-believe underground movement fighting the British. Indoctrinated by his patriotic father and his zealous Bible teacher, Proffy becomes "an excited panther in the basement, seething with oaths and vows, knowing exactly...to what he will dedicate his life, for what he will sacrifice it when the moment of truth comes". But when his comrades accuse him of treason for his friendship with Sergeant Dunlop - a fat, good-natured British soldier who revels in the Bible and shares with him the love of language - Proffy must vindicate himself in the eyes of his family and friends. |
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Amos Oz Arabs Arza Woods basement betrayal betrayed Bible British chicken pieces Chita Reznik clothes corner curfew dark definitely desk lamp door dream dress duty enemy English everything eyes face Father forget forgive front Gary Cooper Gihon girls glass Gryphius hallway hand happened heart Hebrew Humphrey Bogart Hur's icebox inside Jerusalem Jews khaki kitchen knees Land of Israel Lazarus light light-years look low-down traitor morning mother Mount Scopus never night officer once Orient Palace package panther paper parents peeping Perfidious Albion Proffy prophet roof Russian Compound secret Sergeant Dunlop shadow shelf shoulder side silence Sinopsky Brothers grocery smell Sometimes sound started Stephen Dunlop streets suddenly summer talk tell thing told touch treachery turned Tykocinski Underground fighter voice waiting wall whisper words write Yardena Yiddish Zerubbabel
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