Land of Sad Oranges

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The Land of Sad Oranges by Ghassan Kanafani... He once said to me, as he flipped through a newspaper, "Listen, my little philosopher, a person lives for sixty years, generally speaking, right? Half of that is spent sleeping... that leaves thirty years... subtract ten years for illness, travel, eating, and leisure... that leaves twenty; half of those twenty years are gone with a foolish childhood and primary school... that leaves ten years... only ten years, aren't they worth living in peace?" With this philosophy, he faced every challenge. He solved his problems with tolerance, and when tolerance failed, he solved them with humor, and when humor failed, he philosophized. The Land of Sad Oranges, in its various stories, paints the multifaceted facets of the Palestinian tragedy, as if it wants the story to be a mirror of reality and memory, and for language to be a series of multiple bows before the human pain embodied in this mirror. The collection of short stories depicts loss and displacement from one's homeland, drawing on both reality and imagination. Ghassan Kanafani himself experienced events similar to those of the protagonist in "The Land of Sad Oranges." "The Land of Sad Oranges" is Kanafani's second attempt to establish his creative vision of the Palestinian horizon, which he seeks to depict with his words. This horizon is intertwined with memory, as if the Palestinian cannot escape his memories in moments of shock at the tragedy, or as if this memory will be the gateway through which he will discover the only possible path to his true self.