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.
Durante la guerra de 1948, los soldados de una unidad militar israelí destacada en el desierto del Néguev sobrellevan como pueden el asfixiante calor de las horas de sol y patrullan al atardecer la frontera sur del nuevo Estado. En una de esas rondas encuentran a una joven palestina...
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