Minor Detail

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.

Product details

• Authors: Adania Shibli
• Assisted by: Elisabeth Jaquette (Translation)
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2020
• EAN: 9781913097172
• ISBN: 978-1-913097-17-2
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 11 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature