Minor Detail - Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator) torrent

Category: Adults, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: 21st Century Contemporary Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Novella Novels Palestine War

Written by Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)
Read by Siiri Scott
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Longlisted for Booker International Prize 2021

A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people

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 25 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.

Contains mature themes.

Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
Release date: 2021-02-09