Product Overview
An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas. The New York Times
Notebook in hand, Amos Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the early 1980s to talk with workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, new immigrants, desperate Arabs, and visionaries, asking them questions about Israels past, present, and future. What he heard is set down here in those distinctive voices, alongside Ozs observations and reflections. A classic insiders view of a land whose complex past and troubled present make for an uncertain future.
Ozs vignettes . . . wondrously re-create whole worlds with an economy of words. Philadelphia Inquirer
Notebook in hand, Amos Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the early 1980s to talk with workers, soldiers, religious zealots, aging pioneers, new immigrants, desperate Arabs, and visionaries, asking them questions about Israels past, present, and future. What he heard is set down here in those distinctive voices, alongside Ozs observations and reflections. A classic insiders view of a land whose complex past and troubled present make for an uncertain future.
Ozs vignettes . . . wondrously re-create whole worlds with an economy of words. Philadelphia Inquirer
