Collection including Ghassan Kanafani's novella 'Returning to Haifa,' in which two Palestinian refugees travel back to visit their home twenty years after the Nakba and discover that a Jewish family has been living there, and their Arab child raised as an Israeli. Addresses questions of return, loss, and national identity with characteristic moral complexity. One of the most profound literary treatments of Palestinian dispossession and the possibilities and impossibilities of return. Essential for students and researchers of Palestinian fiction studying the right of return through literature, the legacy of Ghassan Kanafani, and the representation of the 1948 Nakba in the Palestinian novella tradition.
