Summary of the novel Men in the Sun

Synopsis of the novel Men in the Sun

The novel Men in the Sun is one of the most famous novels by Ghassan Kanafani ever. It was printed in 1963 AD, and due to the approval of the readers, the General Authority for Cinema in Damascus presented it as a movie, and that was in 1972 AD under the title (The Deceived). The language of the novel is characterized by its smoothness and simplicity, as it reveals to us the secrets of the past and the present.

The novel revolves around three men from Palestine who live in a difficult and bitter reality and try to escape from it to a wider place. And the events of the novel developed when these men agreed with a person to smuggle them from the border between Iraq and Kuwait, and their suffering began when they boarded the truck intended for transporting water, as there was a large tank in the back of the truck, so the agreement with the driver was that they hide in the tank when passing through the checkpoint, and then exit from Hope and its peace cooled to the sun and its flames, and upon reaching the last checkpoint, the driver stayed for a long time talking to the soldiers, and the men were hiding in the tank until the sun caught them, and the driver soon discovered that they had all died of suffocation. The novel ended with an exclamatory question that carries many meanings: (Why didn't they knock the tank?).

The works of Ghassan Kanafani

Ghassan Kanafani talks about the suffering of the Palestinian people, and he represents an important symbol and model as a political writer, critic and novelist. His works have been written in sixteen languages and published in twenty countries. Among his books are the following:

Introducing Ghassan Kanafani

Ghassan Kanafani was born on the ninth of April 1936 in the Palestinian city of Acre. He grew up in a well-to-do family and his father was a lawyer. He witnessed the Nakba at a young age and fled with his family to temporary camps in Lebanon on foot, then moved to Damascus. He is one of the most prominent Palestinian writers who instilled the ideology of resistance in his literature. He was assassinated on July 1972, XNUMX, and left behind his wife, who is of Danish origin, and his two sons, Fayez and Laila.