Panther in the BasementVintage, 1997 - 122 стор. 'One of the greatest prose writers in contemporary fiction' The Times In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity. Jerusalem 1947. British soldiers patrol the streets, and bullets and bombs are a nightly occurrence. Caught up in the fervour and unrest against the occupying forces,12-year old Proffy dreams of being an underground fighter. But some of his dreams are less heroic. Temptation lurks everywhere for the youth who wants to be a man - and betrayal not far behind. |
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... Yiddish song to his horse . So I stood there and scrutinized intently the black words PROFI BOGED SHAFEL , ' Proffy is a low - down traitor ' , in case there was some tiny detail that could shed a new light . From haste or fear the last ...
... Yiddish song to his horse . So I stood there and scrutinized intently the black words PROFI BOGED SHAFEL , ' Proffy is a low - down traitor ' , in case there was some tiny detail that could shed a new light . From haste or fear the last ...
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... Yiddish , which was a kind of satellite of Hebrew , a craggy , pitted orb floating wanly over our heads , among the tattered clouds . And light- years away from Yiddish there were more and more firma- ments , where the Epic of Gilgamesh ...
... Yiddish , which was a kind of satellite of Hebrew , a craggy , pitted orb floating wanly over our heads , among the tattered clouds . And light- years away from Yiddish there were more and more firma- ments , where the Epic of Gilgamesh ...
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... Yiddish , " Mamma " , tells everybody I'm her mother , and I can't make up my mind what I ought to do : whether I should tell her I'm not her mother , that her mother's dead - but how can I kill her mother for the second time – or not ...
... Yiddish , " Mamma " , tells everybody I'm her mother , and I can't make up my mind what I ought to do : whether I should tell her I'm not her mother , that her mother's dead - but how can I kill her mother for the second time – or not ...
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