Shibli’s compelling, intelligent prose is a form of resistance in itself. She embarks on a journey of discovery into the events surrounding that rape and murder-not only because of its gruesome nature but also because it happened to take place twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah reads about this ‘minor detail’ in a larger context, and becomes fascinated by it to the point of obsession. In the Naqab/Negev desert, Israeli soldiers capture and gang-rape a Palestinian girl in her teens. Minor Detail revolves around a brutal crime committed one year after the War of 1948, which Palestinians mourn as the Nakba, the catastrophe that led to the displacement, exile, and refugeedom of some 700,000 people, and which Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Provide Your Evaluation Share your thoughts about the book and what elements work best. Adania Shibli, from her essay ‘Out of Time’. Provide a Summary What is the book about Write about the main characters and what is the conflict that is discussed in the book. I could no longer accept the marginalised, minor life to which we had been exiled since 1948, when our existence turned into a ‘problem”. Minor Detail has been tagged, by reviewers and her publisher, as a war novel or classified under Israeli-Arab conflict, yet it takes only a few pages for the reader to realize how stereotypically lazy such labels are.
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