Adania Shibli
Minor Detail
Like
Listen later
Finished
Notes
Add to collection
Listen on
This audiobook may not be available in your territory.
Unabridged
3 hours 58 minutes
Explicit
Summary
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.
From the same publisher
Show publisher
Sheila Heti
Claire-Louise Bennett
Dorothy Tse
Vanessa Onwuemezi
Olga Tokarczuk
Virginie Despentes
From the same authors
Reviews
No reviews yet
Start by writing your own review.