The Yellow Wind

"A brilliant, searing examination of Israel's occupation of the West Bank . . . beautiful, passionate and profoundly disturbing."—William J. Drummond, The Chicago Tribune

"His report opens our eyes . . . He shows that on both sides of the conflict there are thoughtful, sensitive, intelligent human beings. And he puts us readers directly in touch with them."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

"Written with tremendous conviction and power . . . Grossman means for us to see that the occupier and the occupied are brutalized alike by their unresolved quarrel. His theme is the despair of the defeated and the uneasy sleep of those who must police them."—David Lehman, Newsweek

"Even the most cautious readers—and even the most hostile—are bound to learn something about the conflict that they never knew before, something that illuminates the news and the reality that produces it, something that explains what is and may yet be, something deep and achingly, damningly, true."—Walter Reich, The New York Times Book Review

"The most honest, soul-searching book yet written by an Israeli—or, for that matter, by a Palestinian—on an agony that neither of them alone can bring to an end."—Ruth Broyde-Sharon, The Los Angeles Times

"The Yellow Wind is a novel contribution to the literature of the Israeli-Arab dispute because it navigates between the icebergs of political solutions, myth, and guilt, choosing to skate on the thin cover of experience. Grossman records the voices, images, and impressions flowing beneath the ice . . . [He] is a filter, a prism, not only a camera or a tape recorder."—David Twersky, The Partisan Review

"[Grossman] saw what seems to me the essential point—that the story of the occupation is a story of honor and humiliation."—Avishai Margalit, The New York Review of Books

"A portrait of a situation far more complex than the simplistic stereotypes fed us by government officials and the media—a portrait of an occupying force at once brutal and considerate, of a Palestinian people as much at odds with itself as with its enemy, and of intransigence and generosity of spirit on both sides."—Richard Caplan, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer