THE BOOKSTORE WILL BE CLOSED FROM MONDAY 18TH DECEMBER! LAST ORDERS WILL BE SENT OUT FRIDAY 15TH DECEMBER!

Adania Shibli: Minor Detail

Adania Shibli: Minor Detail

Regular price £10.99 Sale

Fitzcarraldo, 2020, Softcover, 144 pages, 20 × 13 cm

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.