EAN: 9781804298589

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

First published in 1962 Men in the Sun is both a classic of Arab literature and of what Kanafani himself would term ' resistance literature' . Three Palestinian men embark on a brutal and treacherous odyssey across the Iraqi desert to Kuwait not for liberation but material betterment. Their driver a jaded fat former freedom fighter living with his own compromises and contradictions makes for a garrulous if cavalier companion. Both the indifferent brutality of border bureaucracy and the blank aggression of the sun see that things grow steadily more stark. The author' s ardent politics are apparent throughout but the novel' s characters are their own beings: ambivalent conflicted creatures of context. While breezily conversational with disarming dreamy strokes of lyricism this short novel delivers a shuddering and grounding dose of true horror. As well as the titular novella the book features six short stories including the timelessly resonant ' Letter From Gaza' Kanafani' s first published work written when he was twenty and the essential ' The Land of Sad Oranges' .

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