Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (English) Paperback Book

Description: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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, Shiblis haunting prose is a form of resistance in itself. Author Biography Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974, holds a PhD from the University of East London, and has published three novels in Arabic. She teaches at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University in Palestine and divides her time between Jerusalem and Berlin. Review Adania Shibli takes a gamble in entrusting our access to the key event in her novel – the rape and murder of a young Bedouin woman – to two profoundly self-absorbed narrators – an Israeli psychopath and a Palestinian amateur sleuth high on the autism scale – but her method of indirection justifies itself fully as the book reaches its heart-stopping conclusion. * J. M. Coetzee *Shibli has created a powerful set of dual heroines, women wracked with disquiet and violence, resisting the frames that have first, been chosen for them, then denied to have ever existed. This is an astonishing, major book. -- John Freeman * Lit Hub *Adania Shiblis exceptional novel Minor Detail belongs to the genre of the novel as resistance, as revolutionary text. Simultaneously depicting the dehumanisation that surrounds rape and land-grab, it is a text that palpitates with fear and with outrage. As we join the nameless young woman in her quest to find the truth of a long-forgotten atrocity, we realize how dangerous it is to reclaim life and history in the face of ongoing, systematic erasure. The narrative tempo, that eventually reaches a crescendo, astutely captures how alienation and heightened anxiety are elemental states of living under Israeli occupation. This is the political novel we have all been waiting for. * Meena Kandasamy *An extraordinary work of art, Minor Detail is continuously surprising and absorbing: a very rare blend of moral intelligence, political passion and formal virtuosity. * Pankaj Mishra *Written with an exquisite, tactile, and deceptive simplicity, Minor Detail tells the story of a womans violation and murder in the aftermath of the Palestinian catastrophe and the founding of the Israeli state, and of another womans curiosity about this "minor detail" in the modern day. Immediately after I finished reading this miraculous novel, I read it again; both times, it sliced through my heart. I believe it will be one for the ages. * Isabella Hammad *The power of this book is undeniable. The two halves close around you. I am here for whatever Shibli writes. * Daisy Johnson *Startling, cinematic: Shiblis masterly, acidic work of subtle symbolism and plot symmetry gives no access to the thoughts of the Israeli soldiers or their victim, making the Palestinian womans subsequent first-person narration all the more arresting. This is a remarkable exercise in dramatizing a desire for justice. * Publishers Weekly *The novel is halved into two narratives of equal length, one after the other, and the first recounts an atrocity occurring precisely twenty-five years prior to the second. And through this daring and ingenious architecture, Shibli creates a text of resistance in which the second narrative seeks to recover the past events of the first from erasure. * Full Stop *Heat and the evanescent shimmer of light-soaked sand rise up like a wall of static separating the books sections, while images and motifs flit spectrally through the haze, drawn almost magnetically to their twins on the other side... Shibli is a deft chronicler of the blinkering of life wrought by oppressive regimes, the way their manifold codes and proscriptions tighten around perception like a coil of barbed wire. * Ploughshares *All novels are political and Minor Detail, like the best of them, transcends the authors own identity and geography. Shiblis writing is subtle and sharply observed...never judgmental or didactic. The book is, at varying points, terrifying and satirical; at every turn, dangerously and devastatingly good. * Fatima Bhutto, Guardian *Minor Detail by Adania Shibli packs quite the punch and comes highly recommended. * Bookmunch *[A] highly sophisticated narrative that pitilessly explores the limits of empathy and the desire to right (or write) historical wrongs by giving voice to the voiceless. * Guardian *In its broad strokes, Minor Detail is a blistering allegory about state violence and the conscription of womens bodies. In its minor details, it offers a piercing account of everyday life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. * Saturday Paper *An intense and penetrating work about the profound impact of living with violence—Shiblis work is powerful and this translation by Elisabeth Jaquette is rendered with exquisite clarity and quiet control. * LA Review of Books *Shibli delicately suggests that the "complete truth" of the crime might never be found out, that perhaps the details in the two stories mirror each other because the past isnt even past. * New York Times *Shiblis third novel is an unflinching account of violence and dehumanisation, and J. M. Coetzees endorsement might alert us to the tradition in which this exceptional writer is working—except that Shibli breaks new ground…Brutal, hypnotic and haunting. * Monthly *A stunning and provocative exploration of what it means to tell the stories of others, especially those who have suffered, and whether it is ever truly possible. * Readings *Adania Shiblis third novel, Minor Detail, cements her position among the top ranks of Palestinian novelists working today. * World Literature Today *Though Minor Detail initially promises to be a kind of counterhistory or whodunit—a rescue of the victims story from military courts and Israeli newspapers—it turns out to be something stranger and bleaker. Rather than a discovery of hidden truths, or a search for justice, it is a meditation on the repetitions of history, the past as a recurring trauma. * New York Review of Books *Shibli turns her astonishing command of sensory detail into a rich study of memory and violence. * New York Times *I was transfixed by Minor Detail (Text) by Palestinian writer Adania Shibli. This gripping narrative revolves around a brutal crime committed in the aftermath of the war of 1948, investigated years later by a woman haunted by the story. * Lucy Treloar, Age *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 *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 *Minor Detail is a sparse but searing novel that shows how the horrors of the past continue to shape Palestinian life today…By focusing on one story from 1948, Minor Detail shows how current events in Gaza are rooted in the longer history of violence in Israel and Palestine. We must reckon with this past to understand what is taking place now. * Conversation *A book that I cant stop thinking about…Shiblis prose slices right through, each line careful. Minor Detail is a book that changes its reader. * Leah Jing McIntosh, Liminal *One of the best novels Ive read in a while. * André Dao *Minor Detail had overwhelmed me, among other things, because of this: shame at how little I actually knew…Silence is what opens Shiblis novel, and the sound of gunshots is what closes it. The endless silence of sand is there at the start and the end…A novel about giving a voice to a girl who was never able to speak for herself. * LitHub *Shiblis paralleling of past and present insisting on not only the recognition of historical context but also the shared humanity within it…It is not violence that defines this book, but this devastating mirror of a shared humanity. * Meanjin *I was floored by the book—writing at its brutal, economical best. You wont be able to stop reading, heart in mouth, and when you finish it will stay long after you close the covers. * Readings * Promotional From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman. Review Quote The most talked-about author on the West Bank. Promotional "Headline" From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman. Excerpt from Book Nothing moved except the mirage. Vast stretches of barren land rose in layers up to the horizon, and wavered silently under the weight of sky, while the harsh afternoon sunlight blurred the lines of the dull yellow sandy highlands. The single discernible detail in the highlands was a faint, winding border... Description for Sales People * Revolving around a brutal crime committed by Israeli soldiers one year after the War of 1948, this astonishing work examines borders, social control and the details of a violent history in subtle yet startling prose. * Evoking a Palestinian landscape that will the haunt the reader long after finishing, Minor Detail is an explosive new work from one of the most exciting international writers. * Strong review coverage in literary publications such as Kill Your Darlings, Lifted Brow, Saturday Paper or Guardian * Radio interviews on ABC and local stations, interview in online publication such as Lifted Brow or Sydney Review of Books * Advertising in literary and current affairs publications such as the Big Issue ; early reading copies available to the trade; featured on Texts website and monthly e-newsletters; giveaways with human rights groups and literary organisations such as English PEN. Details ISBN1922268690 Author Elisabeth Jaquette Publisher Text Publishing Year 2020 ISBN-10 1922268690 ISBN-13 9781922268693 Format Paperback Imprint The Text Publishing Company Place of Publication Melbourne Country of Publication Australia Language English Translated from Arabic Publication Date 2020-05-19 DEWEY 892.737 Pages 176 Narrator Jonathan Glover Translator Elisabeth Jaquette Birth 1954 Death 1988 Affiliation Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Bipolar Clinic and Reseach Program, Massachusetts General Hospital Position Associate Professor of Psychiatry Qualifications U.S.M.C Alternative 9781925923278 Audience General NZ Release Date 2020-05-18 AU Release Date 2020-05-18 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127431554;

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