5+ hour, 39+ min ago (307+ words) If these stories are horrific, they also capture glimmers of Palestinians finding their own quietude " even in the face of genocide Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories is a blistering collection by the trailblazing author Ghassan Kanafani, featuring works he crafted across the 1950s-60s. In these pressing translations by Hilary Kilpatrick, Kanafani homes in on the lives of Palestinians in diaspora, flight and exile after the Nakba in 1948 " considering cruel ironies of survival in incisive prose. The eponymous novella explores the terrible journey undertaken by three Palestinian refugees of disparate ages " Abu Qais, Marwan and Assad. They leave a refugee camp in Iraq to find new work in Kuwait to support their families " enduring indignities as they cross borders, in increasingly absurd, emasculating encounters. If these stories are horrific, they also capture glimmers of Palestinians finding their own quietude…...