FMV Book Book Club—Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Date: 04.11.2024
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Host: Female Minority Voices




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Welcome to the ninth The Female Minority Voices Book Club meeting of the year! For October, our book pick is Minor Detail by Adania Shibli.

About the book:

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.

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OFFER: Our team member Rodolfo Baldinotti will be able to order the book for those of you who want to use this offer. He will give a list to the bookstore (Norli Strandgaten) and you will be contacted when the book is ready to be picked up (payment then and there).Send an email with your full name and contact information to femaleminorityvoices@gmail.com until the 16th of September at 14:00.

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And as always, if you don't get the chance to read the book, come anyway!The book functions as a conversation starter, so just read up on the theme/topic of the book, and join us for a good conversation - and bring a friend! See you there!

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