Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2021
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.
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN: 9781913097172Dimensions: 197 x 125 mm
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'All novels are political and Minor Detail,like the best of them,transcends the author's own identity and geography. Shibli's writing is subtle and sharply observed.'- Fatima Bhutto,The Guardian
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