Palestine's children : Returning to Haifa and other stories

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Palestine's children : Returning to Haifa and other stories

Ghassan Kanafani ; translated by Barbara Harlow and Karen E. Riley ; with an introduction to the work and a biographical essay on Ghassan Kanafani

(A three continents book)

Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000

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Includes bibliographical references

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Description

Short stories describing the Palestinian experience of the Middle East conflict. Each involves a child, a victim of circumstances, who nevertheless participates in the struggle towards a better future. As in Kanafani's other fiction, these stories explore the need to recover the past by action.

Table of 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.

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