TY - BOOK AU - Oz, Amos TI - Soumchi: A Tale of Love and Adventure SN - 9781784702151 U1 - 813 PY - 2016/// CY - . PB - Vintage KW - Children's stories KW - Eklavya's Book KW - Hebrew Literature - Translation KW - Novel KW - Stories N2 - When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in British-occupied Jerusalem just after World War II, receives a bicycle as a gift from his Uncle Zemach, he is overjoyed—even if it is a girl's bicycle. Ignoring the taunts of other boys in his neighborhood, he dreams of riding far away from them, out of the city and across the desert, toward the heart of Africa. But first he wants to show his new prize to his friend Aldo ER -