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Winner, LiBeraturpreis, Germany, 2023
Shortlisted, Translated Literature, National Book Awards, United States, 2020
Longlisted, International Booker Prize, United Kingdom, 2021
Longlisted, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, United Kingdom, 2021
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 more than 700,000 people, and which Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence.
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 this compelling novel, Shibli’s haunting prose is a form of resistance in itself.
Author: Adania Shibli
Paperback Published 19 May 2020 176 pages
‘The power of this book is undeniable. The two halves close around you. I am here for whatever Shibli writes.’ Daisy Johnson
‘Stunning…A haunting meditation…on the historical and personal legacies of war, dispossession, and, perhaps most fundamentally, human cruelty. A major novel of minor proportions.’ Atlantic