The Lover is a 1987 collection of three incomplete novels by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanfani.
The novels were published for the first time after Kanafani's assassination in the Palestinian magazine titled 'Shu'oon'.
[2] The collection is named after the first novel, The Lover or Al-Ashiq, and in it, Kanafani discusses Palestinian Resistance in a way that is different from the rest of his works.
Kanafani's exploration of Palestinian Resistance in the next two novels are more familiar and similar to his usual way, which is through employing symbolism.
[3] They believe that the novels' open-endedness lends them even more literary value and reinforce Kanafani's skill and influence in the genre of resistance literature.