Minor Detail [Paperback]

A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people An explosive double-telling of a single crime story.... The extreme economies of?Shibli's?styleblending aphorism and enigma, dry humor and searing critiquerecall the novellas of C?sar Aira and Mario Bellatin. In the act of writing such an evocative, tightly wrought fiction, in her invention of such a complex, fighting character who is at once the victims double and the authors stand-in, Shibli not only reflects the deadening conditions of occupation. She also, crucially, transcends the damage they have done. Shibli crafts a story that connects strangers to one another through the occupation that has shaped their lives.?Nerve-racking and eye-opening. Like an affidavit in its egalitarian specificityevery detail of every characters action is accounted for, and therefore scrutinized. A starkly poetic accounting of a crime, its burial, and its exhumation. In Adania Shibli's subversively quiet, compelling?Minor Detail,?threads of connection are embodied in a young woman's quest to find almost erased history. Written in spare, careful language (praise also to translator Elisabeth Jaquette), Shibli helps reclaim what would be obliterated by forces actively at work yet today, doing so with a narrative masterfully carrying both surprise and inevitability within. This book has devastation and loss to a shattering, wrenching degree, and yet. Yes, and yet. 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. An intense and penetrating work about the profound impact of living with violenceShiblis work is powerful and this translation by Elisabeth Jaquette is rendered with exquisite clarity and quiet control. Though A palpable sense of dread pulses beneath? Startling, cinematic: Shiblis malÓ,