
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.



Israel: Jewish state and national homeland to Jews the world over. But a fifth of its population is Arab a people who feel themselves to be an inseparable part of the Arab nation most of which is still technically at war with the State of Israel.

Torn between conflicting identities -- Arabs in the eyes of Jews, and Israelis in the eyes of the Palestinians -- the Israeli Arabs live in a painful dilemma. Grossman's account of his personal journey into their world is the story of this painful, convoluted state of affairs,...
