Minor Detail, Paperback Book, By: Adeniya Shibli

About the Author: Adania Shibli won the German LiBeraturpreis Prize for 2023, for her novel "A Minor Detail" (Dar Al-Adab 2017), translated into German (Eine Nebensache). The jury's decision stated that the novel is: "A well-crafted work of art that tells of the power of borders and what bloody conflicts do to people. The author focuses her attention, with great care, on the small, secondary details that allow us to see the old wounds and scars that lie beneath the. About the Book: In August 1949, the leader of a military battalion camped with his soldiers in a place in the Negev desert, suspected of being a route taken by Arab insurgents. After more than five decades, a young Palestinian employee goes on a trip to the Negev province to discover the circumstances of an accident in that camp, with the help of secondary details.