Sleeping on a Wire: Conversations with Palestinians in Israel - Softcover

Watzman, Haim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312420978 ISBN 13: 9780312420970

Publisher: Picador, 2003

Synopsis

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? 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.

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Review:

"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." --The New York Review of Books

"Eloquent...gives voice to a community that rarely makes itself heard outside Israel and is largely ignored within that country...An old Yiddish saying maintains that it's hard to be a Jew. Recent history has also taught us that it's hard to be a Palestinian. But to be a Palestinian in a Jewish state seems the very definition of being caught between the rock and the hard place." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"David Grossman is a brilliant and passionately honest young Israeli novelist whose clarity of vision and sensitivity to language inform his work as a political commentator." --San Francisco Chronicle

Book Description:

A ground-breaking and profundly important portrayal of the Arab population in Israel

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312420978
• ISBN 13: 9780312420970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344