Decided to go to the car to read this. I was sitting in the library, but the subject matter is so personal to me. I was sitting there with tears. Maybe it's a sign that I am not in the right place for this book, but I will never be there so... Powering through is what I will do.
#nakba / Shiblī, ʻAdanīyah, and Elisabeth Jaquette. Minor Detail. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
The true story of how a Bedouin girl was raped and murdered by Israeli soldiers.
[…] The Negev gang rape at the heart of Minor Detail is a true story, carried out by Israeli soldiers in 1949. Another minor detail: according to declassified documents, the real-life commander answered his superior’s question on whether the girl was eventually returned to her village by reporting that his soldiers killed her because “it was a shame to waste the petrol”.