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Yara Hawari’s “The Stone House” is a story of unending Palestinian trauma rooted in the Nakba. However, it is also an expose of steadfastness, resistance, and I dare say - hope. ....
Like her first novel, “Touch” (Clockroot Books, 2010), Palestinian writer Adania Shibli’s latest book, “Minor Detail”, stands out for her unusual choice of point-of-view, her focus on the characters’ state of mind, and her understated but particularly poignant sensory descriptions. Unlike “Touch”, however, “Minor Detail” adds a heavy dose of history and current political reality, speaking directly to Palestinians’ sometimes fatal encounter with Israeli colonisation. In both novels, the characters remain nameless, increasing their archetypal significance. “Minor Detail” is divided into two sections. The first covers roughly five days in August 1949. A company of Israeli soldiers has been dispatched to the southwest of the Negev Desert, to demarcate the border with Egypt, find “infiltrators” and “cleanse” the area of any remaining Arabs. For several days they see no humans, but then they discover a small Bedouin encampme ....