Minor detail

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A beautiful meditation on war, violence, memory and injustice, set in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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ISBN: 9781913097172 Author: Shibli, Adaniyah Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions Publication Date: 6th May 2020 Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions Cover: Paperback Dewey: 892.737 (edition:23) Pages: 112 Language: English Edition: Paperback original Readership: General - Trade / Code: K Category: Subjects: ,

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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