SfP Book Club - Minor Details by Adania Shibli


📎⁩ ⁨Save the Date!

Join us for our bookclub on Saturday, 09. May at 12:00 at Murx (Oberbadgasse 6)!
We will read and discuss the novel Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, a novel that won the LiBeraturpreis in 2023 but its ceremony was censored by the German authorities at Frankfurt Buchmesse.

Come and get to know us, and get to read other books with us!
You don’t need to finish the 112-page novel in advance.

Our next book in June will be Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa’ed Atshan. Please contact us per Email sfpheidelberg[at]protonmail.com to get more information, to get access to a digital version of the book, or for book suggestions 📖📚!

When: 9. Mai 2026, 12 Uhr

Where: Murx, Oberbadgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg

ÖPNV: Rathaus/Bergbahn, Heidelberg oder Alte Brücke, Heidelberg

Accessibility: Largely accessible for people in wheelchairs

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"Nothing moved except the mirage."

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Opening sentence from Adania Shibli's *Minor Detail*, which I started last night.

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Minor Detail, by Julia Sabra

from the album Natural History Museum

Julia Sabra
Last week the literary association Litprom canceled a celebration for the Palestinian author Adania Shibli’s book “Minor Detail” at the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the publishing world’s biggest international book fairs.
https://dh.uy/bookfaircancel #Litprom #MinorDetail #FrankfurtBookFair #Palestine #books #AdaniaShibli
Opinion | A Chill Has Been Cast Over the Book World

The organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair are demonizing a fiction writer and stifling her viewpoint.

The New York Times