Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories

Text: English (translation) Original Language: Arabic

this Collection Of Important Stories By Novelist, Journalist, Teacher, And Palestinian Activist Ghassan Kanafani Includes The Stunning Novella Men In The Sun (1962), The Basis Of The Film The Deceived. In The Unsparing Clarity Of His Writing, Kanafani Offers The Reader A Gritty Look At The Agonized World Of Palestine And The Adjoining Middle East.

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a Collection Of Stories By A Palestinian Novelist, Journalist, Teacher, And Activist, Including The Novella (1962), The Basis Of The Film . Other Stories Were Written During The 1950s And 1960s, And Offer A Gritty Look At The Agonized World Of Palestine And The Adjoining Middle East. Includes An Introduction On Kanafani's Life And Work. The Author, A Major Spokesman For The Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine, Was Killed In A Car-bomb Explosion In 1972. Lacks A Subject Index. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com)

This collection of important stories by novelist, journalist, teacher, and Palestinian activist Ghassan Kanafani includes the stunning novella Men in the Sun (1962), the basis of the movie The Dupes (1972, directed by Tewfik Saleh). Also in the volume are "The Land of Sad Oranges" (1958), "'If You Were a Horse...'" (1961), "A Hand in the Grave" (1962), "The Falcon" (1961), "Letter from Gaza" (1956), and an excerpt from Umm Saad (1969). In the unsparing clarity of his writing, Kanafani offers the reader a gritty look at the agonized world of Palestine and the adjoining Middle East. Born in Acre (northern Palestine) in 1936, Ghassan Kanafani was a major spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and founding editor of its weekly magazine Al-Hadaf. His novels, short stories, and plays have been published in sixteen languages. He was assassinated in a car-bomb explosion in Beirut in 1972. >Il maturo Abu Qais, il giovane Asad e il ragazzo Marwàn, fuggiaschi dai campi profughi palestinesi, attraversano l'inferno del deserto iracheno rinchiusi dentro un'autocisterna vuota. Con la complicità di un autista desiderano entrare clandestinamente nel ricco Kuwait e trovare un lavoro. - [publisher](https://sellerio.it/it/catalogo/Uomini-Sotto-Sole/Kanafani/4647) A collection of stories by novelist, journalist, teacher and Palestinian activist Ghassan Kanafani. Titles such as "The Land of Sad Oranges", "If You Were a Horse..." and "Letter from Gaza" offer a gritty look at the agonized world of the Middle East in general, particularly Palestine.