TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oz, Amos
TI  - Panther in the Basement
SN  - 0099754010
PY  - 1997///
CY  - LONDON
PB  - Stanley Paul
KW  - JERUSALEM
KW  - SOLDIER
KW  - ENGLISH
N1  - Set in the summer of 1947, this is a rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy g rowing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resis tance he is drawn into friendship with the enemy, in the form of a British soldi er to whom he teaches Hebrew in return for English lessons
ER  -