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In the story 鈥� A Hand in the Grave鈥� by Ghassan Kanafani, the author talks about two medical students and the mission that they partake one night. They are required to bring to school the following day a corpse so that it can be studied. Since neither of the two medical students can afford to buy a corpse, they decide to visit a local cemetery to dig one up. The story is read from the point of view of the first person style of writing. The conflict is dealt in a Man vs. Himself conflict. The characters in the story are the following: Nabile, who the story is told from his point of view, is a medical student. Suhail is another medical student who goes with Nabile to find a skeleton for his class.
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Ghassan Kanafani
94听books1,903听followersGhassan Kanafani (Arabic: 睾爻丕賳 賰賳賮丕賳賷鈥庘€�)
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, By the Israeli Mossad
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine (then under the British mandate) in 1936. His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kanafani and his family fled to Lebanon, but soon moved on to Damascus, Syria, to live there as Palestinian refugees.
After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. There, he began writing short stories, influenced by his contact with young children and their experiences as stateless citizens.
In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation. In Beirut, he published the novel Men in the Sun (1962). He also published extensively on literature and politics, focusing on the the Palestinian liberation movement and the refugee experience, as well as engaging in scholarly literary criticism, publishing several books about post-1948 Palestinian and Israeli literature.
Ghassan Kanafani was a Palestinian journalist, fiction writer, and a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Kanafani died at the age of 36, assassinated by car bomb in Beirut, By the Israeli Mossad
Ghassan Fayiz Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine (then under the British mandate) in 1936. His father was a lawyer, and sent Ghassan to a French missionary school in Jaffa. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Kanafani and his family fled to Lebanon, but soon moved on to Damascus, Syria, to live there as Palestinian refugees.
After studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus, Kanafani became a teacher at the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria. There, he began writing short stories, influenced by his contact with young children and their experiences as stateless citizens.
In 1960 he moved to Beirut, Lebanon, where he became the editor of several newspapers, all with an Arab nationalist affiliation. In Beirut, he published the novel Men in the Sun (1962). He also published extensively on literature and politics, focusing on the the Palestinian liberation movement and the refugee experience, as well as engaging in scholarly literary criticism, publishing several books about post-1948 Palestinian and Israeli literature.
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December 11, 2018
Brilliant imagery. A serious task such as grave robbing turns into something humorous. A light, short tale such as this is like a piece of dark chocolate, it melts quickly but leaves a sweet aftertaste in your mouth.
December 24, 2012
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March 13, 2025
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May 7, 2024
gave me a good chuckle
July 14, 2024
Binge reading these rn
March 31, 2025
So good
November 1, 2019
It is a classic portrayal of a conservative Islamic household, but there is suspense, horror, and an ending that will hit you like a brick.
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