Letter from Gaza (1956) by Ghassan Kanafani

Kanafani was a Palestinian resistance writer and revolutionary politician who produced some of the Arab world’s most celebrated works of fiction before he was assassinated, alongside his beloved niece Lamees, by Mossad in 1972.

“Letter from Gaza,” perhaps Kanafani’s most famous short story, was written when the author was barely 20 years old. Tragically prophetic, it is told in the voice of a young Palestinian man who has returned to his destroyed neighborhood in Gaza. In a letter to a friend who is eagerly awaiting his arrival in Sacramento, the man recounts a trip to see his badly wounded niece, and explains his decision to “remain among the ugly debris” of his brutalized home place.

Reflections on the letter by Hisham Matar:
https://granta.com/letter-from-gaza/

published by Cutt Press
2023, 24 pages, 15 x 21 cm