· And Jachin-Boaz’s son, Boaz-Jachin, one day makes a demand that he believes impossible: he wants his father to tell him where to find a lion – for there are no lions any more. Bemused, but enlivened, Jachin-Boaz decides that he will never find a lion sitting at home and, taking his son’s master map, he heads off into the world to find his lion – and to reclaim the savour and the Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz. Author Russell Hoban; ; Author: Russell Hoban. Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: Category: Fiction Page: . A Russell Hoban Omnibus (Collection, ) Along with four Hoban novels, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, Turtle Diary, Pilgermann and Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer, the Omnibus contains Return of Manny Rat, the incomplete, fragmentary sequel to The Mouse and His Child, which Hoban began but abandoned and which had never before been.
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. Russell Hoban: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz. The opening paragraph: There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion of their running still flickered on the dry wind -- tawny, great, and quickly gone. Sometimes the honey-colored moon shivered to the silence of a. The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz by Russell Hoban, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz — Hoban, Russell. Jachin-Boaz, a Jewish map maker, leaves his wife and son to find “a lion,” though they are extinct. He takes with him the “master map of everything” he was preparing for his son. The son follows after him to London, and his rage becomes a lion that haunts Jachin-Boaz, while he too searches for somewhere and something to be. A Russell Hoban Omnibus (Collection, ) Along with four Hoban novels, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz, Turtle Diary, Pilgermann and Mr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer, the Omnibus contains Return of Manny Rat, the incomplete, fragmentary sequel to The Mouse and His Child, which Hoban began but abandoned and which had never before been.
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