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Adania Shibli Minor Detail

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Berlín-Friedrichshain, dodací doba +7 dní
U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

UK

2020

Paperback

144

Standard

308777

978-1-913097-17-2

1-913097-17-X

Fiction in translation

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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.

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