How to Cure a Fanatic

A short, clear-sighted and unsentimental masterpiece about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – Mark Damazer * New Statesman *
This is a book designed to be taken out into the world… Patient, cogent and an exquisite thinker, Oz is a rare blast of sanity and intelligence. Read, learn and take heart * Guardian *
A bloodless victory over fanaticism * The Times *
Nobody has chronicled modern Israel more faithfully than Amos Oz, and these bleak vignettes of village life in a country riddled with anxiety find him at his unsparing best – Sally Cousins * Sunday Telegraph *
Amos Oz is the voice of sanity coming out of confusion – Nadine Gordimer
Invaluable because of his wisdom and the passionate nature of his engagement – Tracey Thorn * New Statesman *
Oz’s cool, measured prose accumulates into a sense of uncertainty in a collection whose portentous ambience is resonant of the unnerving, fabular fiction of Magnus Mills or Haruki Murakami – James Urquhart * Financial Times *
Excellent – William Leith * Evening Standard *
Invaluable because of his wisdom and the passionate nature of his engagement and his sane effort to find the outlines of an agreement in the Middle East – Colm Tóibín * New Statesman *
This brief but resonant book collects the novelist Amos Oz’s lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict… Sometimes he is so careful not to say anything that would offend either side that he ends up saying very little at all. But perhaps it is that very tact, that respect for the other, that constitutes his most eloquent response to the fanatic – David Evans * Independent on Sunday *

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over 30 languages, including recently his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. He has received several international awards, including the Prix Femina, the Israel Prize, the Goethe Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize and the 2013 Franz Kafka Prize. He lives in Israel.

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