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Published: 1st August 2000
ISBN: 9780894108907
Number Of Pages: 202
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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.
| Ghassan Kanafani: A Biographical Essay | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 13 |
| The Slope | p. 29 |
| Paper from Ramleh | p. 37 |
| A Present for the Holiday | p. 43 |
| The Child Borrows His Uncle's Gun and Goes East to Safad | p. 47 |
| Doctor Qassim Talks to Eva About Mansur Who Has Arrived in Safad | p. 59 |
| Abu al-Hassan Ambushes an English Car | p. 75 |
| The Child, His Father, and the Gun Go to the Citadel at Jaddin | p. 83 |
| The Child Goes to the Camp | p. 99 |
| The Child Discovers that the Key Looks Like an Axe | p. 107 |
| Suliman's Friend Learns Many Things in One Night | p. 113 |
| Hamid Stops Listening to the Uncles' Stories | p. 123 |
| Guns in the Camp | p. 129 |
| He Was a Child That Day | p. 135 |
| Six Eagles and a Child | p. 141 |
| Returning to Haifa | p. 149 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 197 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780894108907
ISBN-10: 0894108905
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 202
Published: 1st August 2000
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 21.59 x 14.61
x 0.64
Weight (kg): 0.27
Edition Number: 1
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