"[Shehadeh's] searching analysis offers insights for readers coming new to the situation and others who wish to face it afresh." --
The Guardian "Shehadeh's clarity of thought, conversational voice, and sharp analysis render this book a quick, fascinating read, and his passion for his people and their plight infuse the book with exactly the right pace and tone. A concise, essential history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." --
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Elegantly written...suffused with anger without descending into bitterness." --
Irish Times Praise for Raja Shehadeh
"Palestine's greatest prose writer." --
The Observer "In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, his self-questioning and insistence on focusing on the experience of the individual within the storms of nationalist myth and hubris, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi." --
New York Times Book Review "Shehadeh is a great inquiring spirit with a tone that is vivid, ironic, melancholy, and wise." --Colm Tóibín
"Shehadeh's writing is clear and pared-back; it wears its power lightly. But his masterly, remorseless selection and accumulation of detail builds an unanswerable case against Palestine's historic and current oppressors." --
The Guardian "Shehadeh is a buoy in a sea of bleakness." --Rachel Kushner
