The world of a young boy growing up in Israel is the background for this experimental novel--a series of short chapters. We see him as a boy, then as a man, as he recalls the sometimes realistic and vivid, sometimes lyrically surreal events of his life and the people around him--his parents, his grandfather, his schoolmates, and the beautiful Monica. (Shunra is the Aramaic word for cat, and schmetterling the German for butterfly.) Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.