Adania Shibli „Eine Nebensache“ © Berenberg Verlag
Academy Dialogue: Adania Shibli and Eva Menasse
Reading and Talk
Adania Shibli’s novel Minor Detail intertwines the fates of two Palestinian women: a Bedouin girl, who is violated by Israeli soldiers in 1949, and a young woman in the present who traces details of this girl‘s story. Shibli discusses central themes of the novel, the limits of narration, and violence and erasure over the course of time in Palestine and beyond with Eva Menasse.