![]() ![]() For her, descriptions and reports of war crimes are unsettlingly banal: “Incidents like that aren’t out of the ordinary, or, let us say, they happen in contexts like this. In the second section, set apparently in the present day, an unnamed woman reads about the crime in the newspaper, and for reasons she cannot quite understand, feels compelled to try and find out what happened, using only some maps of the area to guide her.įor the unnamed woman narrator in the second part, the crime we read in the first catches her eye because of the date it occurs on: August 13, her birthday. They bring the one young woman back to camp with them, and though the officer appears to consider how to keep her safe, she is repeatedly gang raped and eventually murdered. ![]() ![]() While undertaking routine patrol, some soldiers encounter a group of Arabs and immediately kill the men in the group. The novel is written in two parts: the first is set in August 1949, a year after the Nakba, as an Israeli officer oversees the clearing of the Negev Desert and the establishment of the border with Egypt. ADANIA SHIBLI’S SLIM NOVEL Minor Detail is an intense and penetrating work about the profound impact of living with violence, whether it occurred in the past or contemporaneously. ![]()
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