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Panther in the Basement (Paperback)

By: Amos Oz (Author) and Nicholas De Lange (Translator)

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"...Mr. Oz creates a vivid picture of life in Jerusalem, with sharply drawn characters....The novel offers an unexpectedly charming and humane memory of a tense, tough time."

"Israeli writer Amos Oz's new novel masterfully captures the early days of Israel as well as the heroic and erotic prepubescent yearnings of its protagonist."

"A wonderful short novel....Another triumph, and further evidence of Oz's increasing claim to serious Nobel Prize consideration.

"[A]n insightful, inventive and lyrical expression of this writer's forbearing vision of life under the aspect of mortality. Its effect is not that of a powerful, steady torrent, as in some of Oz's other novels, but that of an intermittently fine, stinging rain."

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I have been called a traitor many times in my life.

Publisher's note

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--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.
PANTHER IN THE BASEMENT represents a great storyteller at his finest.

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During the summer of 1947, the last days of the British mandate in Israel, 12-year-old Proffi concocts a make-believe underground movement training to fight the oppressors. Then he makes friends with a good-natured British soldier, and must redefine the meaning of loyalty.

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