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The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
Russell Hoban
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'A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's' New Statesman
'I have gone to look for a lion.' In a world where lions have become extinct, the map-maker Jachin-Boaz nevertheless abandons his wife and son to find one, leaving just this note. But his decision has unexpected consequences. He will be pursued by his son, Boaz-Jachin, and by something else: a tawny-skinned, amber-eyed beast from another place and time, a bringer of life and death.
'Magic at work ... Funny as well as beautiful' Irish Times
'Hoban is unclassifiable, thank goodness. His ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241485712
SKU
9780241485712
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About Russell Hoban
On his death in 2011, The Times described Russell Hoban as 'perhaps the most consistently strange writer of the late 20th century'. He thought and wrote in an extraordinary range of genres, becoming first a bestselling writer of children's books, particularly the immortal Frances stories and his first novel, The Mouse and His Child (1968). After its publication ... Read more
Reviews for The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
Magic at work ... Funny as well as beautiful.
Irish Times
Amazingly, the mythology is sustained in totally modern terms, desolate, comic and urban.
Time Out
A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's.
New Statesman
Worth rejoicing in ... a banquet of whimsical delights. Each Russell Hoban book ... Read more
Irish Times
Amazingly, the mythology is sustained in totally modern terms, desolate, comic and urban.
Time Out
A piece of invention as original as any of Tolkien's or C.S. Lewis's.
New Statesman
Worth rejoicing in ... a banquet of whimsical delights. Each Russell Hoban book ... Read more