Minor Detail

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Minor Detail

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ISBN: 9781913097172
author: Adania Shibli
translator: Elisabeth Jaquette
book format: Paperback
other title: Minor Detail
publishing house: Fitzcarraldo Editions
publication date: 2020 -5
language: English
binding: Paperback
price: GBP 10.99
number of pages: 144

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Adania Shibli    translator: Elisabeth Jaquette

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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 expulsion of more than 700,000 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 this ‘minor detail’ of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts 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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