The Land of Sad Oranges (Arabic: أرض البرتقال الحزين) is the second collection of stories written by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.
[1][2] Originally published in 1962, the stories follow the perspective of a Palestinian as they and their family are dispossessed in the wake of the 1948 Palestine war.
[3] The collection includes: Ghassan Kanafani (born in Acre on 8 April 1936 and died in Beirut on 8 July 1972) was a famous Palestinian novelist, narrator and journalist of the twentieth century.
Kanafani joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1967 and, two years later, began editing its magazine Al Hadaf (The Goal).
At 36 years old he was assassinated by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad on 8 July 1972 by detonating his car in the Hazmiyeh area near Beirut.