Daybreak in Gaza is a record of an extraordinary place and people, and of a culture preserved by the people themselves. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers offer stories of love, life, loss and survival.
“A love letter to Gaza. A heartbreaking testament to the beauty and courage of Palestinian people in the face of extraordinary brutality” Isabella Hammad
This collection of stories depicts the everyday lives and struggles of Palestinians. Men in the Sun was the basis for the film The Deceived and is considered one of the great classic stories of Palestinian literature.
By the much loved and highly acclaimed Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani who was assassinated by Israel in 1972 in a car bombing in Beirut.
At once lyrical, uplifting and tragic, the novella and stories explore the need to recover the past, the lost homeland by action. Their deeper gift is to reveal the plight of oppressed people everywhere.
By One of Palestine’s most loved and celebrated writers, Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated by Israel in an explosion of his booby trapped car in Beirut in 1972 aged 36