Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974. Her first two novels appeared in English with Clockroot Books as Touch (tr. Paula Haydar, 2010) and We Are All Equally Far From Love (tr. Paul Starkey, 2012). She was awarded the Young Writer’s Award by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in 2002 and 2004. Minor Detail was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2020, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021.
‘All novels are political and Minor Detail, like the best of
them, transcends the author’s own identity and geography. Shibli’s
writing is subtle and sharply observed.’
— Fatima Bhutto, Guardian
‘A sophisticated, oblique novel about empathy and the urge to right
wrongs’
— Anthony Cummins, Observer
‘An intense and penetrating work about the profound impact of
living with violence—Shibli’s work is powerful and this translation
by Elisabeth Jaquette is rendered with exquisite clarity and quiet
control.’
— Katie da Cunha Lewin, Los Angeles Review of Books
‘This is probably my novel of the year so far.’
— Anthony Cummins, Daily Mail
‘Though Minor Detail initially promises to be a kind of
counterhistory or whodunit—a rescue of the victim’s story from
military courts and Israeli newspapers–it turns out to be something
stranger and bleaker. Rather than a discovery of hidden truths, or
a search for justice, it is a meditation on the repetitions of
history, the past as a recurring trauma ... For Shibli, the
emblematic experience of occupation is the longue duree of ennui
and isolation rather than a dramatic moment of crisis.’
— New York Review of Books
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