Set in disputed ground, this austerely beautiful novel focuses on one incident in the Palestine/Israeli conflict and casts light on ethnic conflicts, and ethnic cleansing, everywhere.” In the second, decades later, a woman sets out to comprehend that crime. They said, of Minor Detail: “The first part of this devastatingly powerful book gives a laconic account of a shocking crime. This year’s judging panel also included Aida Edemariam, Neel Mukherjee, Olivette Otele, and George Szirtes. But our longlist includes a Czech/Polish author’s vision of a drug-fuelled Swedish underworld, a Dutch author from Chile writing in Spanish about German and Danish scientists, and a Senegalese author writing from France about Africans fighting in a European war. Many do, and write wonderful fiction about their hometowns. Not all writers stay in their native countries.
However a theme does emerge – migration, the pain of it, but also the fruitful interconnectedness of the modern world. In a year when we could scarcely leave our own houses, we judges have been crossing continents, transported by our reading.
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