This is brilliant—in response to the Frankfurt Book Fair's contemptible erasure of Adania Shibli's brilliant MINOR DETAIL, her publisher Fitzcarraldo Editions has made the ebook free to download for the duration of the Book Fair, on Amazon UK, Apple Books, and Kobo.
Read "Minor Detail" by Adania Shibli available from Rakuten Kobo. Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba – the cat...
I downloaded and just started reading. It’s fantastic.
Frankfurt Book Fair's cancel culture (uninviting Palestinian writer Adania Shibli to receive an award for her book Minor Detail) is getting partially erased, thanks to her publisher making the e-book available for free. #nocollectivepunishment
I hope the author is still getting some money though…. Brilliant book BTW, I read it months ago and keep on thinking about it
Yes, & because of their generosity I immediately bought a copy from their website fitzcarraldoeditions.com/books/minor-...
Ha simultaneous posting.
Translated by Elisabeth Jacquette
this blew up &c., here check out this essay if you haven't read it already
“Most of all, I’m tired of the false equivalence between semantic violence and systemic violence.” A grim, heartbreaking, and cogent essay by Mohammed El-Kurd that may be helpful in navigating this world of extremely poisoned discourse
Palestinians are told the words we use dwarf the decades of violence enacted against us by the self-proclaimed Jewish State. A drone is one thing, but a trope—a trope is unacceptable. No more.
Just bought the audiobook via Google.
Oh, I wonder where my cobo is and if it's still works
Seems that that edition isn’t available on the Australian Kobo store. :|