**A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people** 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 peo
Minor Detail
β Scribed by Adania Shibli
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 66 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0811229076
- ASIN
- B088ZRFY43
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β¦ Synopsis
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba β the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people β 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 βminor detailβ 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. βAn extraordinary work of art, Minor Detail is continuously surprising and absorbing: a very rare blend of moral intelligence, political passion and formal virtuosity.β
β Pankaj Mishra, author of The Age of Anger
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