Panther In The BasementHarperCollins, 1 жовт. 1998 р. - 160 стор. From “a great and true voice of our time” (Washington Post Book World), comes this story of Proffy, a twelve-year-old living in Palestine in 1947. When Proffy befriends a member of the occupying British forces who shares his love of language and the Bible, he is accused of treason by his friends and learns the true nature of loyalty and betrayal. Translated by Nicholas de Lange. |
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... shutters, I stopped writing because I remembered to get up and close the bathroom door; though it might have preferred to stay open, to judge by the groan it made as I closed it. All that summer my mother and father went out at 2.
... shutters, I stopped writing because I remembered to get up and close the bathroom door; though it might have preferred to stay open, to judge by the groan it made as I closed it. All that summer my mother and father went out at 2.
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... closed the dictionary. I felt dizzy. This list appeared to me like a thick forest with many bifurcating paths from which more and more tracks spread out, losing themselves in the thickets, winding tortuously, joining up for a while and ...
... closed the dictionary. I felt dizzy. This list appeared to me like a thick forest with many bifurcating paths from which more and more tracks spread out, losing themselves in the thickets, winding tortuously, joining up for a while and ...
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... closed, like eyes dazzled by the light. And their machine guns sticking out in front like pointing fingers: You there! At dawn the boys would go around sticking up posters from the Underground on walls and lampposts. On Saturday ...
... closed, like eyes dazzled by the light. And their machine guns sticking out in front like pointing fingers: You there! At dawn the boys would go around sticking up posters from the Underground on walls and lampposts. On Saturday ...
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