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A Small Detail Book Description A Small Detail begins in the summer of 1949, as Palestinians mourn the Nakba disaster that deported 700,000 people and Israelis celebrate the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers kill a group of Bedouins in the Negev Desert and capture and rape a Palestinian girl among them. Then they murder the girl and bury her in the sand. Years later, near the present day, a young woman in Ramallah pursues this "little detail" in history and begins to deal with it to the point of obsession. A chilling novel about war, violence and memory, A Small Detail, which was nominated for prestigious awards such as the International Booker and the National Book Award, masterfully addresses issues such as the dispossession of Palestinians and life under occupation. “Adania Shibli takes a big risk by telling the key event in her novel – the rape and murder of a young Bedouin woman – through two narrators who are completely immersed in their own world, an Israeli psychopath and a Palestinian amateur detective on the autism spectrum. However, the method of indirection achieves its goal, thanks to the shocking ending of the novel.”JM Coetzee “A Minor Detail is an extraordinary work of art; Always surprising and gripping. A rare example of moral intelligence, political passion and formal mastery.”Pankaj Mishra (From the Promotional Bulletin)