Description
Twenty years after the Nakba, Safeyya and Said return to Haifa through the opening of the Mandelbaum Gate, driven by a single hope: to find their lost infant, Khaldun. What they discover is a city transformed and a life rewritten—their former home now occupied, their son raised within a new identity, and their reunion shadowed by suspicion, grief, and irreversible loss. Ghassan Kanafani’s novella confronts the long aftermath of displacement, exploring themes of belonging, memory, and the painful limits of return when history has already claimed its price. With Kanafani’s incisive, journalist’s clarity and emotionally charged storytelling, this is a haunting meditation on family, justice, and the human cost of political catastrophe.
Available Editions
paperback
Rimal Publications
Published Jan 1, 2013
80 pages
ISBN: 9789963610914
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Details
First Published
1969
Language
eng
Translation
From: ara
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani.