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Gr 5–9—In a gloomy isolated village in the mountains, all of the animals have disappeared, carried off by Nehi the Mountain Demon. The village children are warned against going out at night, and parents lock their doors and windows with iron bolts when the sun goes down. Emanuella the Teacher describes different domestic and forest creatures to her students, but the adults won't talk about the night a curse befell the village and what they did to provoke the animals' disappearance. After years without a single dog, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

A much-honored Israeli novelist pens a lyrical allegory concerning a gloomy village from which all animals fled so long ago that only adults remember them; a village plagued by cruel teasing and by fear of Nehi the Mountain Demon, who villagers believe took the animals and still stalks the streets at night; a place haunted by its past. Matti's father is evasive: "Once, things happened here in the village, things we're not proud of. But not e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Oz's lyrical allegory concerns a gloomy village from which all animals fled so long ago that only adults remember them. The ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More