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Amos Oz: Panther in the Basement

(Fiction, 155 pp. Hebrew, 1994; English translation, 1997)

It is the summer of 1947 in Palestine under the British Mandate. A 12-year-old Jewish boy befriends a British soldier to improve his English, only to find himself branded as a traitor by his friends. A coming of age novel with a difference.