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Palestine's Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories

by Ghassan Kanafani, Gsn knfny · 1984 · 199 pages

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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.

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Genre
historical fiction
Setting
20th centurypalestinemiddle eastcollegearab
Subject
historypolitics
Audience
adult
Length
short · 199 pages
Form
short stories

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