How to Cure a Fanatic
  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099572725
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99

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A landmark work from a celebrated author on how to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict.

‘A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant’ Simon Schama

Amos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Judas, grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a boy he witnessed first-hand the poisonous consequences of fanaticism.

In How To Cure a Fanatic Amos Oz analyses the historical roots of violence and confronts truths about the extremism nurtured throughout society. By bringing us face to face with fanaticism he suggests ways in which we can all respond.

From the author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Man Booker International Prize shortlisted Judas.
‘He was the conscience of Israel’ Roger Cohen, New York Times
  • Published: 1 November 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099572725
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Amos Oz

Born in Jerusalem in 1939, Amos Oz was the internationally acclaimed author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his brilliant semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award. He 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 died in December 2018.

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Elsewhere, Perhaps
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Praise for 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

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

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

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

Amos Oz is the voice of sanity coming out of confusion

Nadine Gordimer