Train journeys feel like permission to read. Her mind is like cold, alien moonlight. She goes to the heart of the things we don't talk about.
Minor Detail by Palestinian author Adania Shibli is every bit as good as everyone says. Shibli asks us: what counts as a minor detail? Which events matter and which don't? Whose lives matter, in short.
Writing about Muslim history and life in and beyond Jerusalem, British-Palestinian writer Nuseibeh consistently and courageously refuses to take the easy route out, to settle for straightforward narrative closure.
I'd be so thrilled to see either of them win. Next up is Tiya Miles's All That She Carried! A Flat Place by Noreen Masud is published by Penguin (10.99).
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