The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz is one of my all time favorite books. It's a adult novel by the noted children's author Russell Hoban.
It's not really a fantasy, though there is a large element of fantasy in it. It's about a map-maker (he makes maps to find whatever you desire - water, love, money, etc), his son and their relationship and, of course, a lion.
The opening lines:
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There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer 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-colored moon shivered to the silence of a ghost-roar on the rising air.
There were no chariots any more. The chariots, wind-bereft and roadless in the night, slept with their tall wheels hushed in the tomb of the last king.
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