Adania Shibli and Elisabeth Jaquette on Minor Detail
Author Adania Shibli and translator Elisabeth Jaquette speak about the 2021 International Booker Prize-longlisted Minor Detail.
Adania Shibli's novel 'Minor Detail' was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021. It is a haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, which cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession. Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette.
In the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, Israeli soldiers rape a young Palestinian woman they find in the Negev desert, killing her and burying her in the sand. In the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah embarks on a journey of discovery into the events surrounding that rape and murder. She becomes fascinated by it to the point of obsession, not only because of its gruesome nature but also because it happened to take place 25 years to the day before she was born.
Adania Shibli
About the Author
Adania Shibli was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021 for her novel Minor Detail.
Elisabeth Jaquette
About the Translator
Elisabeth Jaquette is an award-winning translator from Arabic.…this austerely beautiful novel focuses on one incident in the Palestine/Israeli conflict and casts light on ethnic conflicts, and ethnic cleansing, everywhere.