Minor Detail
Book description
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…
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2 authors picked Minor Detail as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This was a realistic tour of Israel from a Palestinian viewpoint - one not readily on offer these days. This is not the Promised Land - it's Hell. A Palestinian female reporter from the West Bank investigates the 25-year-old rape and murder of a Palestinian girl in the Negev desert. Her movements are restricted due to Israeli surveillance and the prospect of hair-trigger violence that could erupt due to heightened tensions in the area. The moral of the story seems to imply "let sleeping dogs lie, because history can repeat itself."
The author herself was penalized when a celebratory event…
A fascinating novel that depicts, in unsettlingly flat style, a historic gang-rape of a Palestinian woman by Israeli soldiers. Cut to the present day and a nameless, obsessive narrator becomes an amateur sleuth, preoccupied with understanding what took place. A brilliant meditation on memory, agency, and our relationship with history.
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