Ghassan Kanafani
Palestinian novelist and PLO spokesman assassinated by the Mossad. Men in the Sun and Return to Haifa are masterpieces of Palestinian exile fiction, exploring the physical and psychological dimensions of dispossession.
Works
- Men in the SunThree Palestinian laborers die trapped in oil tanker truck crossing Gulf border
- Return to HaifaNovel about Palestinian family's return to conquered Israeli city seeking lost son
- All That's Left to YouNovel of Palestinian lovers separated by conflict and occupation
- Umm Saad
- The Land of Sad Oranges