These interviews with award winning Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua, conducted from January 1988 to May 1996, are presented in a thematic non-chronological format supplemented with commentary and context within the text. Using Yehoshua's works as vertebrae, the discussion ranges among topics such as Zionism, Palestinian rights, the Intifida, the Jewish Diaspora, the Holocaust, William Faulkner, Leo Tolstoy, psychoanalysis, and the meaning of the biblical story of the binding of Isaac. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or. The reader of this volume sees into the troubled mind of a loyal citizen profoundly opposed to his government's policies. . . . A good choice for undergraduate and graduate collections.-- "Choice" The short, delightful book Facing the Fires . . . . helps create a portrait of Yehoshua as a committed writer and thinker, integrally linked to the development of the modern state--both physical and psychological--of Israel.-- "World Literature Today" Bernard Horn is professor of English at Framingham State College in Massachusetts. He has published poems, as well as articles, on Herman Melville, Norman Mailer, David Mamet, and the biblical book of Numbers. Used Book in Good Condition