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Panther in the Basement. Type: novel. First Published: 1995. From “a great and true voice of our time” (Washington Post Book World), comes this story of Proffy, a ...
Proffy is a 12-year-old boy with a passion for language and justice. It is 1947, in lieu of World War II, the Jewish people crave a land to call their own. With the creation of the state of Israel underway, Proffy finds himself at the forefront of his own resistance movement. Though he is infatuated with words, he struggles to communicate and ...
Summary. 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 ...
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.
Panther in the Basement Amos Oz, Oz. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $27 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-15-100287-0. The narrator of Oz's tender and affecting 12th novel (after Don't Call it Night) is an ...
Panther In The Basement. Amos Oz. Random House, Feb 28, 2015 - Fiction - 128 pages ‘One of the greatest prose writers in contemporary fiction’ The Times
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.
