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. 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 extract 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.

Palestine will continue to produce great personalities like Ghassan Kanafani the Arab Palestinian writer and fighter. In this literal Arab genre several short stories are included. These stories were written in the 1960's at Kuwait and Bairut-Lebanon, and reflect nostalgia for the home land, Palestine. This work is published here in the process of Ihya al Turath al Arabi fil Mahjar (Revival of Arab heritage in Diaspora) project, supported by the Arab American Encyclopedia and Jerusalem Publishing house-USA. The managing editor is a well known Arab American scholar, scientist, and writer. In this book he is bringing Arab literature published in Diaspora supported by the Arab American Encyclopedia originated by the managing editor, a well known Arab Palestinian American scholar, poet, and author of more than 250 books. Dr. Yahya resides in Michigan-USA, and has four children and ten grandchildren.

Ghassan Kanafani is an Arab Palestinian writer and fighter. In this literal Arab genri several short stories are included. These stories were written in the 1960's at Kuwait and Bairut-Lebanon, and reflect nostalgia for the home land, Palestine. This work was published here in the process of Ihya al Turath al Arabi fil Mahjar, supported by the Arab American Encyclopedia and Jerusalem Publishing house-USA.

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.