Additional Praise for The Yellow Wind

“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

“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

“If there is one word for Grossman’s faith, it is humanism. This word is in some dispute today; it is rare and awesome to come across the real thing.”

—Marshall Berman, The Nation

“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

“Grossman has written a great and terrible book … brilliant and eloquent.”

—Michelle Bisson, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“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

“A penetrating, poignant, and highly personal report on life and animosity on the West Bank … A stunning account.”

—Peter I. Rose, The Christian Science Monitor

“Grossman’s writing has the resonance of good poetry and the acuity of good journalism.”

—Diane Winston, Dallas Times Herald