Panther in the Basement

Oz, Amos

ISBN 10: 0151002878 / ISBN 13: 9780151002870

Published by Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1997

About this Item

Signed "Shalom" by author Amos Oz on FFEP. Translated from the Hebrew by Nicholas de Lange. Near fine with faint edge wear to mylar protected dust jacket. Otherwise tight, bright, unmarked interior. NO remainder marks. Shipping confirmed!

Seller Inventory # 011945

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Panther in the Basement
• Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co., New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151002878
• ISBN 13: 9780151002870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature and Literary Criticism
  • Biography
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A twelve-year-old boy dreams of fighting and dying heroically as part of an imaginary underground movement fighting English soldiers in Palestine during the British mandate.

From the Back Cover

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.