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During the forced occupation of Palestine by Israeli forces in 1948, a young Palestinian woman is raped, killed, and buried by soldiers in the Negev desert. Decades later, a Palestinian writer risks her life trying to obtain more information about this ‘minor detail� in the wider history of an atrocity. These two narratives are melded together in Adania Shibli’s stunningly scrupulous novel, Minor Detail. Despite being a mere 112 pages, Shibli worked the best part of a decade to hone her novel down to a political narrative so sharp and so streamlined that not a single word seems out of place. The result is a novel that should be heralded as not only a masterpiece, but as a landmark in political fiction. Shibli is surely a shoo-in for the Nobel.