**In *Death as a Way of Life* , David Grossman, one of Israel’s great fiction writers, addresses urgent questions regarding the middle east in a series of passionate essays and insightful articles.** Writing not only as one of his country’s most respected novelists and commentators, but as a husband and father and peace activist bitterly disappointed in the leaders of both sides, Grossman asks: What went wrong after Oslo? How can Israelis and Palestinians make peace? How has the violence changed their lives, and their souls?