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Reviews tagging 'Genocide'
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
2 reviews
ninniniko's review
challenging
informative
sad
slow-paced
3.75
Moderate: Genocide, Slavery, and Colonisation
hannahpings's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
required reading.
remarkably researched, presented, and synthesized. ghosh is a deft writer and storyteller, and with the nutmeg's curse presents (this is not hyperbole!) the most well-crafted work i've ever read. there was a moment about two-thirds of the way through the book that absolutely took my breath away: a clear conclusion that i couldn't have seen coming, but up to which every word i'd read so far––even seeming asides and discursions––had been leading. there's also a deep care here, an unflinching earnestness and kinship without which this book couldn't exist, and it's all the better for it.
remarkably researched, presented, and synthesized. ghosh is a deft writer and storyteller, and with the nutmeg's curse presents (this is not hyperbole!) the most well-crafted work i've ever read. there was a moment about two-thirds of the way through the book that absolutely took my breath away: a clear conclusion that i couldn't have seen coming, but up to which every word i'd read so far––even seeming asides and discursions––had been leading. there's also a deep care here, an unflinching earnestness and kinship without which this book couldn't exist, and it's all the better for it.
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Slavery, Police brutality, and Trafficking
Minor: Suicide
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