Full Description
Politics and the novel, Ghassan Kanafani once said, are an indivisible case. Fadl al-Naqib has reflected that Kanafani wrote the Palestinian story, then he was written by it. His narratives offer entry into the Palestinian experience of the conflict that has anguished the people of the Middle East for more than a century.
In Palestine's Children, each story involves a child a child who is victimized by political events and circumstances, but who nevertheless participates in the struggle toward a better future. As in Kanafani's other fiction, these stories explore the need to recover the past the lost homeland by action. At the same time, written by a major talent, they have a universal appeal.
This edition includes the translators' contextual introduction and a short biography of the author.
Contents
Introduction, B. Harlow and K.E. Riley; Ghassan Kanafani - A Biographical Essay, K.E. Riley; The Slope; A Present from Ramleh; The Child Borrows his Uncle's Gun and Goes East to Safad; Doctor Qassim Talks to Eva About Mansur who has Arrived in Safad; Abu al-Hassan Ambushes an English Car; The Child, His Father and the Gun Go to the Citadel al Jaddin; The Child Goes to the Camp; The Child Discovers that the Key Looks Like an Axe; Suliman's Friend Learns Many Things in One Night; Hamid Stops Listening to the Uncle's stories; Guns in the Camp; He Was a Child that Day; Six Eagles and a Child; Returning to Haifa.
