Minor Detail - Adania Shibli

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Auteur(s) : Adania Shibli

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 144

Expédition : 131

Dimensions : 20.4 x 13.5 x 1.2

ISBN : 0811229076

Résumé :

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 exile of some 700,000 people-and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand.

Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.

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Biographie:
Adania Shibli (1974, Palestine) has been writing novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays, which were published in various anthologies, art books, and literary and cultural magazines in different languages. Her latest novel?Minor Detail?was published?in?the US by New Directions in 2020,?in?a translation by Elisabeth Jacquette,?and?has been?translated into many languages, most recently?into?German?(published by?Berenberg Verlag).?Minor Detail?was a finalist for the National Book Award and longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize....

Sommaire:
Adania Shibli (1974, Palestine) has been writing novels, plays, short stories and narrative essays, which were published in various anthologies, art books, and literary and cultural magazines in different languages. Her latest novel?Minor Detail?was published?in?the US by New Directions in 2020,?in?a translation by Elisabeth Jacquette,?and?has been?translated into many languages, most recently?into?German?(published by?Berenberg Verlag).?Minor Detail?was a finalist for the National Book Award and longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize....