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Minor detail / Adania Shibli ; translated by Elisabeth Jaquette.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: Great Britain Fitzcarraldo Editions 2024Description: 112 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781913097172
Uniform titles:
  • Tafāṣīl thānawī. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 892.737 23
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 exile of some 700,000 people-and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past"-- Provided by publisher.
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BOOKs NLS General Stacks 892.737 SHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PB Available Recommended by Dr. Anwesha Ghosh 40479

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First published in Arabic by Dar Al Adab: Beirut, Lebanon.

"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 people-and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past"-- Provided by publisher.

Translated from the Arabic.