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Original Title:	The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
ISBN:	0671783920 (ISBN13: 9780671783921)
Edition Language:	English

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There were no more lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of 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-coloured moon shivered to the silence of a ghost-roar on the rising air.

Jachin-Boaz lives in a dusty town where he owns a shop that sells all kinds of maps: maps to find water, love, money, whatever the heart desires. He has a son, Boaz-Jachin, for whom he is making him a master-map that will be given to him when he is a man. This map that will contain all the secrets of the other maps combined, so that he will be able to find whatever he wishes to seek.

Jachin-Boaz shows his son the map, a labor of love representing years of his life spent upon it. Rhetorically he asks, ‘What can you seek that this map will not show you how to find?’ ‘A lion?’ asks Boaz-Jachin. Disappointed, the father responds: ‘A lion. I don’t think I understand you. I don’t think you’re being serious with me. You know very well there are no lions now.’

But then Jachin-Boaz leaves home, abandoning his wife and son and taking the master-map. He leaves a note which reads ‘I have gone to look for a lion.’ In the desert outside the town, there is a palace where the last king is entombed, his lion hunt carved in stone. Boaz-Jachin, who has decided to seek out his father and ask for the map, takes a bus to the palace where he makes a powerful connection with the image of the dying lion carved in stone.

Through a simple act of sympathetic magic, the son loosens the spears and sets the lion’s spirit free, then begins his journey across land and sea to find his father.

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Title	:	The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
Author	:	Russell Hoban
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	August 1st 1974 by Pocket (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Novels. Magical Realism

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Hoban can put his subtext right out front and it doesn't hurt a thing.

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 mystical, original fantasy, with some gems of phrasing here and there; but I found the book a bit tedious at times. That the tale is a quest for self means that the characters

Starts full of promise, juggling lions and maps as clever metaphors for masculine relationships. But as the tale goes on, it seems to lose a sense of direction, becoming increasingly disjointed and rambling.

I was perhaps too young (18) and id like to re-read it..Great book, i remember that wonderfull feeling associated with great books, ..but the details are vague..the lion, the map,the shop, the quest..

Any son who has a father must read this book. Any man who has a son must read this book. Any seer who loves maps must read this book. Anyone confronted by lions must read this book. Anyone who loves and fears the strangeness in humanity must read this book.

funny and sad, realistic and supernatural, a fable about fathers and sons and the existence of non-existent things... 'Empty space,' said the driver. 'There's a funny thing to think about. The back of the van is full of empty space. I brought it from my town. But I've opened the doors several times since I left. So is it still empty space from my town or is it now several different new empty spaces? This is the sort of thing one thinks about sometimes. If the back of the van were full of chairs

Put down your Paulo Coelho and read this. It's much better.