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Minor Detail

  • عدنية شبلي,
  • Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)

3.33

6 ratings

(As described on goodreads) 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.

Genres

  • Middle eastern philology
  • Fiction, historical
  • Middle east, fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general
  • Arab-Israeli conflict
  • Fiction
  • Arabic fiction
  • Arabic literature
  • Roman arabe
  • Littérature arabe
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About the authors

  • عدنية شبلي

    born 1974

    3.33

    6 ratings · 5 works

  • Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)

    3.33

    6 ratings · 1 works

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