![]() ![]() In the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Israeli soldiers rape a young Palestinian woman they find in the Negev desert, killing her and burying her in the sand. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past. Adania Shibli’s haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, which cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba-the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people-and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prizeįinalist for the National Book Award Minor Detail Fiction by Adania Shibli ![]() A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people ADANIA SHIBLIS THIRD NOVEL, Minor Detail, cements her position among the top ranks of Palestinian novelists working today. ![]()
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