The novel “Returning to Haifa” by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, which was published in Beirut in 1970, was his last novel while he was alive. It was previously chosen among the list of the 10 most important Arabic works of fiction translated during the 21st century.
The novel embodies the life of Palestinian youth whose life circumstances take them away from their land, but when they return, they find that many things have changed. The events are narrated through a third-person narrator, and from a point of view through which he presents the idea of return.