Complete Works Stories Ghassan Kanafani

This volume includes Ghassan Kanafani’s complete and incomplete collections of short stories: Death of Bed No. 12; About Men and Guns; The Land of Sad Oranges; The Stolen Shirt; and A World Not Ours.

These important collections reveal an early talent, capturing the deep idea and authentic human models, and their writer is in his early twenties, embodying the brilliance of art and the depth and originality of vision, to the point that we saw that the idea in some of these stories was the central focus of Ghassan’s novels as we notice in his masterpiece (Men in the Sun) and his superior novel (M. Saad).

These collections dealt with national, nationalist, and humanitarian issues and existential concerns far from noise and directness, and depicted the dilemma of human existence, the crisis of destiny and the tragedy of man in an exciting narrative style that sometimes mixes with mixtures of humor, sarcasm and paradox.
He deals with the most prominent existential issues such as love, death, struggle, resistance, injustice, justice and freedom. His immersion in the tragedy of his homeland and its displaced sons in exile did not prevent him from understanding the short story as an art above all else, in whose fabric all issues and ideas dissolve.