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The Yellow Wind, David Grossman's firsthand inquiry into the predicament of the Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza, was an international sensation in 1987; Nadine Gordimer called it "a revelation of the Israeli-Arab tragedy...a work by a writer of passionate self-honesty, unafraid to ask terrible questions." Now, in Sleeping on a Wire, Grossman brings into the open the perilous balancing act of the "Arabs of '48," those Palestinians who live as citizens within israel's borders. Fully eighteen percent of Israelis are Arab; indeed, some areas of the Galilee and the south are almost entirely populated by Arabs. The intifadah has given these individuals a renewed awareness of their identity as Palestinians, yet their acquiescence in Israel's sovereignty sets them apart from their cousins over the Green Line Who are the compatriots of a Palestinian Arab who is also an Israeli citizen? His or her fellow Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are embroiled in an uprising that both hope will result in an independent state - a solution, however, that takes no notice of the Israeli Arab's situation. With Jewish Israelis, on the other hand, Palestinian Israelis share national ele

Author

Grossman, David

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374524005

Subjects

Sociology, History, Humanities

Rating

3.93 / 5 (74 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14