A short, clear-sighted and unsentimental masterpiece about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Mark Damazer, New Statesman
This is a book designed to be taken out into the world... Patient, cogent and an exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence. Read, learn and take heart
Guardian
A bloodless victory over fanaticism
The Times
Nobody has chronicled modern Israel more faithfully than Amos Oz, and these bleak vignettes of village life in a country riddled with anxiety find him at his unsparing best
- Sally Cousins, Sunday Telegraph
Amos Oz is the voice of sanity coming out of confusion
- Nadine Gordimer,
Invaluable because of his wisdom and the passionate nature of his engagement
- Tracey Thorn, New Statesman
Oz’s cool, measured prose accumulates into a sense of uncertainty in a collection whose portentous ambience is resonant of the unnerving, fabular fiction of Magnus Mills or Haruki Murakami
- James Urquhart, Financial Times
Excellent
- William Leith, Evening Standard
Invaluable because of his wisdom and the passionate nature of his engagement and his sane effort to find the outlines of an agreement in the Middle East
- Colm Tóibín, New Statesman
This brief but resonant book collects the novelist Amos Oz's lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict... Sometimes he is so careful not to say anything that would offend either side that he ends up saying very little at all. But perhaps it is that very tact, that respect for the other, that constitutes his most eloquent response to the fanatic
- David Evans, Independent on Sunday
‘A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant’ Simon Schama
Amos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Judas, grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism.
In How To Cure a Fanatic Amos Oz analyses the historical roots of violence and confronts truths about the extremism nurtured throughout society. By bringing us face to face with fanaticism he suggests ways in which we can all respond.
From the author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Man Booker International Prize shortlisted Judas.
‘He was the conscience of Israel’ Roger Cohen, New York Times