Minor Detail Av Adania Shibli

<p><em>Minor Detail</em> 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, <em>Minor Detail</em> 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.</p>