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Minor Detail
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English
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Fitzcarraldo Editions
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Category General Fiction
Tag Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Category: General Fiction
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144
Minor Detailbegins 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 expulsion of more than 7, people – and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with thisminor detail’ of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory,Minor Detailcuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.
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Minor Detailbegins 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 expulsion of more than 7, people – and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with thisminor detail’ of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory,Minor Detailcuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.
About Author
Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books asTouch(tr. Paula Haydar, 21) andWe Are All Equally Far From Love(tr. Paul Starkey, 212). She was awarded the Young Writer's Award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in 22 and 24.
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