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A review by littleredmacks
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
5.0
Honestly, there was a reason this book was supposed to get an award. It was hauntingly and devastatingly good the way that she tied the stories of these two women together.
Even the way she ties the narrator of part one to part two is amazing. She constantly highlights things that you don’t think will be super important, but that do pop up in part two to tie the stories together.
She pays extremely close detail to their movements. So, in part one we get to see the perpetrators movements, and how free from worry they are, and how unhindered they are. While in part two, we see the girl who has been living under violence, and how she is always concerned with her movements, and what those movements could convey to somebody else.
Most importantly, I think there’s a lesson about privilege here. Telling the story is a privilege we don’t always have. The only story of the crime that was committed was through the eyes of the perpetrator. And ultimately because that crime was a minor detail in the overall history, finding anything about it is nearly impossible.
I would sell my soul to read this again for the first time.
Even the way she ties the narrator of part one to part two is amazing. She constantly highlights things that you don’t think will be super important, but that do pop up in part two to tie the stories together.
She pays extremely close detail to their movements. So, in part one we get to see the perpetrators movements, and how free from worry they are, and how unhindered they are. While in part two, we see the girl who has been living under violence, and how she is always concerned with her movements, and what those movements could convey to somebody else.
Most importantly, I think there’s a lesson about privilege here. Telling the story is a privilege we don’t always have. The only story of the crime that was committed was through the eyes of the perpetrator. And ultimately because that crime was a minor detail in the overall history, finding anything about it is nearly impossible.
I would sell my soul to read this again for the first time.