Product details
- Publisher : Fitzcarraldo Editions (1 August 2020); Penguin Random House
- Language : English
- Paperback : 120 pages
- ISBN-10 : 191309717X
- ISBN-13 : 978-1913097172
- Item Weight : 180 g
- Dimensions : 19.6 x 2 x 12.9 cm
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.
