Death in bed number 12

The book "Death of Bed Number 12" by Ghassan Kanafani... It is customary for a writer's first work to receive a "passport" to the reader... a foreword by a famous writer at the beginning of the book... or a few sentences on the back cover, or a wide-ranging publicity campaign involving the writer, the publisher, and friends of both parties, in which they recount how the stories were created, how the wounded pen bled them, and so on... I believe that a book should speak for itself, and if it fails to achieve even a fraction of its author's ambition, the author should simply accept that, just as he has accepted—time and time again—to tear up stories to rewrite them... or to write others... And so, I encourage "Death of Bed Number 12" to forge its own path, if it can find its way, on its own, without "intercession," without "mediation," and without a "passport." Ghassan Kanafani, 1961