A Leopard in the Mountains<\/p>\n
Tsur Shezaf<\/p>\n
A Novel<\/p>\n
Leopard in the Mountains is a book about man and nature. About the nature of man.<\/p>\n
Since its original publication in Hebrew in 1988, it has become a cult novel treasured by those who cherish the great outdoors and for whom the mysterious and primal land is the setting for things that can only occur when a person wanders distant paths alone.<\/p>\n
Menachem Perry, the book\u2019s editor, described it as follows:<\/p>\n
Tsur Shezaf\u2019s first book, \u201cA Leopard in the Mountains,\u201d makes an impressive entry into Hebrew literature. Its two short novellas should be read, I believe, as a single multi-voiced work in which the \u201cmythology\u201d of the leopard trap is a junction where everything intersects. In both sections we find Bedouins in the desert (the Arava, Sinai) and Shezaf\u2019s awe-inspiring mastery of the power of nature, and the ambience (in addition to the strong plot situations) plays a major part in the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tsur Shezaf\u2019s first book, \u201cA Leopard in the Mountains,\u201d makes an impressive entry into Hebrew literature. Its two short novellas should be read, I believe, as a single multi-voiced work in which the \u201cmythology\u201d of the leopard trap is a junction where everything intersects. In both sections we find Bedouins in the desert (the Arava, Sinai) and Shezaf\u2019s awe-inspiring mastery of the power of nature, and the ambience (in addition to the strong plot situations) plays a major part in the story. And at first glance, the two sections could also be read as mirror images: In one, a Bedouin who is secretly raising his illegal son to be a paragon of the untamed ancient Bedouin ways, spends years cultivating his great act of defiance, inevitable battle and his preordained sacrifice \u2013 while his other sons, and he himself, have become fake \u201cJews\u2019 Bedouin\u201d. While in the other, the big \u201cproject\u201d is just the opposite, a dream of roaming the great wide world that a Bedouin assigns to his \u201cillegal\u201d grandson (born of the slyly calculated mating of his daughter and a Christian monk), the pinnacle of this dream being for the boy to one day become \u201ca pilot in the Israeli air force\u201d: A Jews\u2019 Bedouin, in other words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15019,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[219,227],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15018","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books-and-travel-guides-en","7":"product_cat-literature-books-en","8":"product_shipping_class-israeli-shipment-en","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-variable"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n