Landmark collection by Ghassan Kanafani, a Palestinian writer and intellectual assassinated by Israeli intelligence in 1972. The titular novella, Men in the Sun tells the story of three Palestinian refugees who are smuggled across the desert to Kuwait inside a water tank in search of work opportunities following the Nakba and total upheaval of Palestinian social life. Kanafani confronts Palestinian dispossession, refugee existence, and the failures of Arab solidarity with unflinching directness. Foundational reading in Palestinian literature and the literary legacy of the Nakba. Essential reading for students and researchers of Palestinian literature and the legacy of Ghassan Kanafani, widely taught in courses on Arabic fiction, Palestinian resistance literature, and the political dimensions of short-form narrative.
