Description
In Adania Shibli's acclaimed novel, a young woman in contemporary Ramallah becomes fixated on a mundane detail from a newspaper archive: the record of an Arab man's death in the Israeli desert in 1949, just days after the Nakba. Her obsessive research into this forgotten life unravels a parallel narrative of a soldier's brutal actions and the devastating consequences for a Bedouin woman. Shibli masterfully explores themes of occupation, memory, and the enduring impact of historical violence on individual lives and bodies. Through spare, precise prose, the novel dissects the mechanisms of power and the ways in which history is written and erased.
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Published May 1, 2020
144 pages
ISBN: 9781913097172
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
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Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Minor Detail by Adania Shibli.