*short story ___ you and I and the others of our age were too young to understand what the story meant from beginning to end… “The Land of the Sad Orange” is one of Kanafani's early stories. It depicts the impact of deracination on the Palestinians after Israeli forces took over Palestine in 1948. In this story Kanafani mixes artistic reality with history. Though the story tells the suffering of a middle-class family, it is exemplary of the experience of thousands of displaced families, who suffered the humiliation of leaving their country, following the 1948 defeat of the Arab armies and the creation of the state of Israel.