Returning to Haifa is a journey into the depths of loss and the search for identity, narrated by Ghassan Kanafani with a pain that pierces the silence. Saeed and his wife Safia return to their city of Haifa after twenty years of displacement, to face a memory that left an indelible scar: their infant child, whom they were forced to abandon during the Nakba. In an encounter with the past embodied in Dov, the son adopted by a Jewish family, the gap between those who carried the homeland in their hearts and those who lived without memory is revealed. In a style brimming with symbolism and contemplation, Kanafani poses an urgent question: Is homeland a place, or an identity that inhabits the soul? Returning to Haifa is not just a novel, but rather a human testimony that reflects the deep wound of the Palestinian, and the identity struggle that generations face between a memory that resists forgetting and a reality that forces change.
