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Israel's leader of the Peace Now movement, probes the soul of his country through a series of interviews with both Jews and Arabs.
Anonymous
Posted October 17, 2002
To my mind this is Oz's best book , though lovers of his fiction will say I am not in my right mind.Here there is a far greater chunk of true Israel than in his other works.He knows how to speak to people, and more importantly how to listen to them.His conversations with those who oppose his views are especially good.In Beit Shean the book comes alive as the resentment of development town Sephardim is openly expressed to the the author,the representative of the Ashkenazi elite.But their warmth and humor give the conversation a great deal of life. Wherever Oz goes he encounters contradicting voices, and the whole presentation taken together makes Israel seem, what it truly is, a vibrant dynamic society . Oz's poetic prose and his great talent for description are also here , and add to the pleasure of the reader.
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Oz traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank in the 1980s and spoke with many people about the past, present, and future of his country. What he found is memorably set down here. New Author’s Note and Postscript; map. Translated by Maurie Goldberg-Bartura. A Helen and Kurt Wolff BookIsrael's leader of the Peace Now movement, probes the soul of his country through a series of interviews with both Jews and Arabs.