Bøger af Adania Shibli

En mindre detalje åbner i sommeren 1949 i Negev-ørkenen – et år efter Nakba, hvor over 700.000 palæstinensere blev fordrevet eller tvunget til at flygte efter oprettelsen af den israelske stat. Anført af en officer, som vi følger i romanens første del, udsletter en israelsk sikkerhedsstyrke en beduinlejr. Et af ofrene er en pige i teenageårene. Mange år senere bliver en kvinde i Ramallah besat af en ”mindre detalje” i denne historie, som hun læser en notits om i avisen. Hun begiver sig ud på et risikabelt roadtrip sydpå mod Negev – langt uden for de områder, hendes id-kort giver adgang til. Her indleder hun sin egen personlige efterforskning af, hvad der skete med den unge pige dengang i ørkenen. En mindre detalje er en litterær perle, der i en klar og præcis prosa skildrer tab, frygt og et liv under besættelse. Med sine to dele, der elegant spejler hinanden, kaster romanen lys over en nutid, der altid hjemsøges af fortiden. ”En helt igennem farligt og overvældende god bog” – The Guardian

A beautiful meditation on war, violence, memory and injustice, set in the occupied Palestinian territories.

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 exile of some 700,000 people-and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand.Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.

Touch centers on a girl, the youngest of nine sisters in a Palestinian family. In the singular world of this novella, this young woman's everyday experiences - watching a funeral procession, fighting with her siblings, learning to read, perhaps falling in love - resonate until they have become as weighty as any national tragedy.

A young woman is instructed by her boss to write a letter to an older man. His reply begins an enigmatic but passionate love affair conducted entirely in letters. Until, that is, his letters stop coming... but did the letters ever reach their intended recipient?