A PANTHER IN THE BASEMENT, A NOVEL BY AMOS OZ (BOOK REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION)
Hello! In this post I shall review A Panther in the Basement , a novel written by Amos Oz. Published in 1995, this novel is set in 1947 i.e. the last year of British mandate of Palestine. This short novel basically tells a story from a perspective of a young boy growing up in a complex world. Moreover, it explores an unusual friendship between a young Israeli boy and a clumsy British officer. Obviously, there are many autobiographical elements in it. If you have heard anything about Amos Oz, you have probably heard that he was considered a peace advocate . In fact, when one looks him up, one finds that online biographies of Amos Oz seem to focus more on his activism then his fiction writing. On my blog, I focus more on fiction than on non-fiction, but sometimes these two are interconnected . Even if I focus more on literature than history, sometimes one must mention and explore history as well. This is especially the case when the writing is autobiographical in nature. When it co