Red Mosquito

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ghost wrote:

Minor 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 exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, and among their victims they capture a Palestinian teenager and they rape her, kill her, and bury her in the sand.

Many years later, in the near-present day, a young woman in Ramallah tries to uncover some of the details surrounding this particular rape and murder, and becomes fascinated to the point of obsession, not only because of the nature of the crime, but because it was committed exactly twenty-five years to the day before she was born. Adania Shibli masterfully overlays these two translucent narratives of exactly the same length to evoke a present forever haunted by the past.

BurtReynolds wrote:Looks boring

Strat wrote:Just finished The Great Alone.


Man alive. Absolutely fantastic. One of the most engrossing novels I’ve ever read. Good lord. Highly suggest

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Alone-Nove ... B06Y5WRS2C

durdencommatyler wrote:

Strat wrote:Just finished The Great Alone.


Man alive. Absolutely fantastic. One of the most engrossing novels I’ve ever read. Good lord. Highly suggest

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Alone-Nove ... B06Y5WRS2C

Baller. Just added it to the list.

Strat wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

Strat wrote:Just finished The Great Alone.


Man alive. Absolutely fantastic. One of the most engrossing novels I’ve ever read. Good lord. Highly suggest

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Alone-Nove ... B06Y5WRS2C

Baller. Just added it to the list.

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An expatriate professor, Vega, returns from exile in Canada to El Salvador for his mother’s funeral. A sensitive idealist and an aggrieved motor mouth, he sits at a bar with the author, Castellanos Moya, from five to seven in the evening, telling his tale and ranting against everything his country has to offer. Written in a single paragraph and alive with a fury as astringent as the wrath of Thomas Bernhard, Revulsion was first published in 1997 and earned its author death threats. Roberto Bolaño called Revulsion Castellanos Moya’s darkest book and perhaps his best: “A parody of certain works by Bernhard and the kind of book that makes you laugh out loud.”