Smith's Gazelle by Lionel Davidson - Book Club Associates HB 1978

Detailed Condtion : Please see all photos for condition description. There is a little wear to the dust jacket with tiny tears to the edges, tanning to the pages, minor bumping to the corners and edges and a few tiny marks on the front and back cover. Other than that, this book is in good clean condition.

Hamud the one-eyed Arab shepherd, righteous murderer of murderers, flees from retribution to the depths of a haunted ravine near the Palestine border. Instead of souls and djinns, he finds there only bones and boulders - and the last pregnant representative of an extinct species of gazelle named Smith. As animal and vegetable life prosper beneath his care, Hamud comes to see himself as the subject of divine grace: his unworthy life's mission, to repopulate with gazelles the Holy Land....