Products specifications
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Author
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Adania Shibli |
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Pub Date
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06/05/2020 |
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Binding
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Paperback / softback |
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Pages
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144 |
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Country
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United Kingdom |
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Dewey
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892.737 |
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GBPPrice
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10.99 |
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Availability
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Temporarily unavailable |
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 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, Minor Detail 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.
