رجال في الشمس

A great window into a forgotten yet influential era in the modern history and identity of the Palestinian people and their struggle, short yet interesting read

I read this book knowing how it's gonna end, because we learned about the film adaptation in uni. I'm glad i knew, cause that ending is brutal. This story is about 3 Palestinians trying to get smuggled into Kuwait, as it's known as the land of money. We learn about their reasons first and then follow them on their journey.
History keeps repeating itself, and books like this one will always be relevent. Hundrends are dying in the Mediterranean sea, and people are nitpicking about the legality of such immigrations, but no one stops to think about why these people are leaving, gambling with their lives, instead of staying in their countries
. Here's an excerpt, from the book, i have translated, which pretty much says it all:
“_The road is long, and i'm an old man, i can't walk the way you did... i might die.
[...]
_You might die? Hah, who said that's not better than how you live now.”

***Changed my 5/5 rating to a 4, cause I've been reading other Kanafani books, and they're even better. As they can't be rated 6/5, I'll be lowering this one.

رواية جارحة على الرغم من وضوح النهاية عند بداية الرحلة.
اسلوب غسان في الكتابة مشوق جدآ بسبب سرده السريع للأحداث و ايجازه للوصف.
اعجبني كثيرآ الانتقال بين المشاهد المختلفة زمنيآ مع البقاء على بعض عناصر المشهد الأول بسبب تداخل الوصف أو الشعور, تنقل سلس جدآ و يدغدع المخيلة بطريقة مبهرة.