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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... head floating in a ring of light from his desk lamp, as though he was laboriously climbing the gulley between the mountains of books piled up on his desk, filling slips and cards with notes in preparation for his great book on the ...
... head floating in a ring of light from his desk lamp, as though he was laboriously climbing the gulley between the mountains of books piled up on his desk, filling slips and cards with notes in preparation for his great book on the ...
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... head up and down, one of those looks that conjure up what we learned in Bible class, "he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," and his blue eyes above his glasses shone at me in naked ...
... head up and down, one of those looks that conjure up what we learned in Bible class, "he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes," and his blue eyes above his glasses shone at me in naked ...
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... heads we'll hold up high. Then I tore up the card and put the dictionary and the encyclopedia away. There was fear. Which I must overcome at once. But how? I decided to look at some stamps. Barbados and New Caledonia were each ...
... heads we'll hold up high. Then I tore up the card and put the dictionary and the encyclopedia away. There was fear. Which I must overcome at once. But how? I decided to look at some stamps. Barbados and New Caledonia were each ...
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