Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel

Based on conversations with Palestinians in Israel, David Grossman's Sleeping on a Wire, like The Yellow Wind, is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the Middle East today.

Israel describes itself as a Jewish state. What, then, is the status of the one-fifth of its citizens who are not Jewish? Are they Israelis, or are they Palestinians? Or are they a people without a country? How will a Palestinian state--if it is established--influence the sense of belonging and identity of Palestinian Israeli citizens?

No other Israeli writer so far has approached this touchy subject with such compassion, or looked at it with, so to speak, bifocal eyes, Israeli and Palestinian. --Amos Elon, The New York Review of Books

Author: David Grossman
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780312420970

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2003 pg. 215
Library Journal 08/01/2003

About the Author
David Grossman has received several international awards for his writing, including the Premio Grinzane and the Premio Mondelo for The Zigzag Kid. He is the author of several novels, including A Horse Walks into a Bar, The Book of Intimate Grammar, as well as children's books, and a play. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and children

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