A Small Door Set in Concrete

This is a forceful and weighty book . . . written in a quiet, personal voice, and with humor. It is a documentary book, but it is written like literature in the full sense of the word. It produces in the reader--at least it did in this reader--empathy and emotion, and it reads like a powerful, consciousness-changing novel. --David Grossman, author of To the End of the Land Praise for the Hebrew edition At the heart of the book is a woman on her own, free, inquisitive, friendly, who drives children to the sea so that they can see it for the first time, and who meets families and friends and officials and speaks with them and observes them. A woman who is capable of 'ridiculing fears and prejudices, of crossing barriers of walls and fences with her body, her spirit, and her mind, and of defying limitations that reside in the soul--limitations of submission and obedience, and especially of fear--and vanquishing them.' --Omri Herzog, Haaretz Praise for the Hebrew edition If you want a book whose words are clear and simple and which says things that come out of a wise heart, this is a book for you. . . . Hammerman is not boring for one moment: her book is vibrant, personal, and relevant, and its intensity is tangible under the surface. Sometimes the descriptions become fine literature by virtue of the narrative ease, with the anger neutralized. It is not the storyteller who is shouting, it is the story that cries out without raising its voice. --Talma Admon, Maariv Praise for the Hebrew edition I am torn while I read it. I weep. . . . The writing is so honest and so lovely. It is as if there is no other way to seduce the horror. But please, do read it. --Lea Aini, author of Bat ha-Makom Praise for the Hebrew edition