Minor Detail Cecil Rajendra Newly arrived

Newly arrived

she rebels outright

Gone is the angst of the poets who began publishing in the fifties and sixties over a perceived exilic condition

who spends most of his time lying in bed gazing at life in an apathetic daze

Oblomov – here presented in Stephen Pearl's award-winning translation

Minor Detail Cecil Rajendra Newly arrivedMinor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this "minor