Copyright © Adania Shibli, 2016
Translation copyright © Elisabeth Jaquette, 2020

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Originally published in English translation by Fitzcarraldo Editions
in Great Britain in 2020

First published as a New Directions Paperbook (ndp1482) in 2020
New Directions Books are printed on acid-free paper

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Shiblī, ʻAdanīyah, author. | Jaquette, Elisabeth, translator.
Title: Minor detail / Adania Shibli ; translated by Elisabeth Jaquette.
Other titles: Tafāşīl thānawī. English
Description: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020. |
First published in Arabic by Dar Al Adab: Beirut, Lebanon. |
Translated from the Arabic.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020004677 | ISBN 9780811229074 (paperback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9780811229081 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Arab-Israeli conflict—1948–1967—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PJ7962.H425 T3413 2020 | DDC 892.7/37—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020004677

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