Nomad and Viper (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Amos Klausner
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Plot: Psychological, social realism
- Time of Work: The late 1950's or early 1960's
- Setting: A kibbutz in rural southern Israel
- Principal Characters: Geulah, The narrator, Etkin, An elderly man, Arab goatherder
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Rural or country life, Jews or Jewish life, Farms, farmers, or farming, Israel or Israelis, Jewish-Arab relations, Arabs, Bedouins
- Locales: Israel
The Story
In the first of its nine numbered sections, the story begins with a depiction of the northern flight, sanctioned by Israeli military authorities, of Bedouin Arabs from a famine in the drought-ravaged south to a kibbutz and of the appearance and behavior of the Bedouins, their flocks, and their camels. Typical encounters between the Bedouins and kibbutzniks (residents) are described, along with the eerie nocturnal Bedouin music and the baying of their dogs—all of which unsettles the kibbutzniks and their own dogs.
The story then describes animal diseases and...
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