Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Minor Detail by Adania ShibliMinor 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

with petulant princesses

Twenty-five female luminaries — whose lives and works cover three centuries — capture experiences that are both vivid and varied

And his journey will change the universe

his efforts in a land of cliche to add twists to easy assumptions

Fifty years on

dreamy gem of a novel

terrifying clarity

from nineteenth-century workers to today's activists

Attempting to survive in this brave new world

John Mitchel - the radical nationalist

Cormac McCarthy boldly divines a future without hope

and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood