Description
A moving and powerful meditation on how harrowing past events can impact on the future in unexpected ways, Minor Detailrevolves around the repercussions of the rape and murder of a young Palestinian woman by Israeli soldiers in 1949.
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.
Number of pages: 144
Dimensions: 197 x 125 mm
