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Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest

Suddenly in the Depths of the Forest

 In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence round the whole subject. One wretched, little boy has dreams of animals, begins to whoop like an owl, is regarded as an outcast, and eventually disappears. A stubborn, brave girl called Maya and her friend Matti, are drawn to explore in the woods round the village. They know there are dangers beyond and that at night, Nehi the Mountain Demon comes down to the village. In a far-off cave, they come upon the vanished boy, content and self-sufficient. Eventually they find themselves in a beautiful garden paradise full of every kind of animal, bird and fish - the home of Nehi the Mountain Demon. The Demon is a pied piper figure who stole the animals from the village. He, too, was once a boy there, but he was different, mocked and reviled, treated as an outsider and outcast. This is his terrible revenge, one which has punished him too, by removing him from society and friendship, and every few years he draws another child or two to join him in his fortress Eden, where he has trained the sheep to lie down with the wolves, and where predators are few. He lets the two children return to the village, telling them that one day, when people are less cruel and his desire for vengeance has crumbled, perhaps the animals might come back..  

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Proizvod je dostupan: NE

Autor: Oz Amos
ISBN: 9781784703110
Godina izdanja: 2017
Broj stranica: 144
Težina: 106
Tip uveza: Paperback
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Oz Amos

Oz Amos


Amos Oz, one of the most important contemporary Israeli writers, was born Amos Klausner in 1939 in Jerusalem. He grew up in Jerusalem on Amos Street in the quarter Kerem Avraham, where most of his novels are set. He is one of the first Israelis who advocated the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict of the conflict after the Six-Day War. He did it back in 1967 in the article "Our Land ancestors" in the Davar newspaper . His first collection of stories, Where jackals zavijaju was published in 1965, and the first novel Perhaps Elsewhere in 1966. He has published so far about thirty books of stories, novels and essays, among which Moj stands out Michael , The Black Box , The Story of Love and Darkness... The winner is a number of prestigious awards - Israel Prize for Literature, Peace Prize of German publishers and booksellers, the Goethe Prize of the city of Frankfurt, the Prize Franz Kafka and many other important world awards and recognitions. His works are translated into more than forty world languages.

 In a village far away, deep in a valley, all the animals and birds disappeared some years ago. Only the rebellious young teacher and an old man talk about animals to the children, who have never seen such (mythical) creatures. Otherwise there's a strange silence round the whole subject. One wretched, little boy has dreams of animals, begins to whoop like an owl, is regarded as an outcast, and eventually disappears.

A stubborn, brave girl called Maya and her friend Matti, are drawn to explore in the woods round the village. They know there are dangers beyond and that at night, Nehi the Mountain Demon comes down to the village. In a far-off cave, they come upon the vanished boy, content and self-sufficient. Eventually they find themselves in a beautiful garden paradise full of every kind of animal, bird and fish - the home of Nehi the Mountain Demon. The Demon is a pied piper figure who stole the animals from the village. He, too, was once a boy there, but he was different, mocked and reviled, treated as an outsider and outcast.

This is his terrible revenge, one which has punished him too, by removing him from society and friendship, and every few years he draws another child or two to join him in his fortress Eden, where he has trained the sheep to lie down with the wolves, and where predators are few. He lets the two children return to the village, telling them that one day, when people are less cruel and his desire for vengeance has crumbled, perhaps the animals might come back..

 

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