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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... stand , people would stand and argue about the borders of the future Hebrew State . Would they include Jerusalem ? Would they include the British naval base at Haifa ? And what about Galilee ? And the desert ? Some hoped that the forces ...
... stand , people would stand and argue about the borders of the future Hebrew State . Would they include Jerusalem ? Would they include the British naval base at Haifa ? And what about Galilee ? And the desert ? Some hoped that the forces ...
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... stand in front of them , put on my glasses ( which are nothing like my father's round ones ) , and follow the course of the war in Bosnia or Azerbaijan as described in the news on the radio or in the papers . There is always a war going ...
... stand in front of them , put on my glasses ( which are nothing like my father's round ones ) , and follow the course of the war in Bosnia or Azerbaijan as described in the news on the radio or in the papers . There is always a war going ...
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... stand up like a tripod , but each time they collapsed . He pulled out his penknife , shortened one twig , whittled an- other , until he managed to stand them in a perfect geomet- rical arrangement . But he did not put the knife away ...
... stand up like a tripod , but each time they collapsed . He pulled out his penknife , shortened one twig , whittled an- other , until he managed to stand them in a perfect geomet- rical arrangement . But he did not put the knife away ...
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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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