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Minor Detail (Paperback) by Antonia Baggini

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fitzcarraldo Editions (1 August 2020); Penguin Random House
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 191309717X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1913097172
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 180 g
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.6 x 2 x 12.9 cm

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 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 detail' of history. A haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, Minor Detail cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession, life under occupation, and the persistent difficulty of piecing together a narrative in the face of ongoing erasure and disempowerment.