![]() ![]() Minor Detail is grounded in the shifting borders of past and present-day Palestine/Israel. A year later, as I read the stammering amateur detective in her third novel, I was transfixed. ![]() Shibli’s precise language and formal innovation create a palimpsest-the real hovers (almost imperceptibly) above the imagined, just as the past shadows and irradiates the present.Īdania lives in Palestine, where she was born, and in Germany where I met her briefly at the Berlin Literaturhaus. Halfway through, the novel shifts into the present, to the restless mind of the Palestinian woman who investigates the crime. With a cool omniscience and forensic detail, Shibli shows us a methodical perpetrator oblivious to suffering, even to his own. In the opening half of Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail(New Directions) an Israeli Defense Force commander and his platoon capture and brutalize a young Bedouin woman in the Negev desert. ![]()
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