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,