Sleeping on a Wire Conversations with Palestinians in Israel

<p>Israel: Jewish state and national homeland to Jews the world over. But a fifth of its population is Arab, a people who feel themselves to be an inseparable part of the Arab nation, most of which is still technically at war with the State of Israel. <p>In the summer of 1991 David Grossman set out on a journey into the world of Arab citizens of his country. <i>Sleeping on a Wire</i> is an account of what he found. It is about men and women fighting to find a voice, to pick out the pulse of their own identity in a land that doesn't seem to be theirs. He has not written about open conflict. Rather it is a story of ferment beneath the surface, and an intensifying bitterness which can only exacerbate the troubles of the Middle East.</p>