Oz evokes Israeli life with the same sly precision with which Chekhov evoked pre-Revolutionary Russian life
Los Angeles Times
A marvellous ability to transport the reader into a new set of ideas, feelings and fears... The whole book is masterly
Financial Times
A peerless imaginative chronicler of his country's inner and outer transformations
Independent
An exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence
Observer