Author Adania Shibli and translator Elisabeth Jaquette speak about the 2021 International Booker Prize-longlisted Minor Detail.
Elisabeth Jaquette
Elisabeth Jaquette is an award-winning translator from Arabic
Her work includes Basma Abdel Aziz’s The Queue, Rania Mamoun’s Thirteen Months of Sunrise, and Dima Wannous’s The Frightened Ones. She is also executive director of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA).
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Adania Shibli's novel 'Minor Detail' is a haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, which cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession
Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette