Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Capitães da areia by Jorge Amado

5 reviews

akagwg's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Chorei igual uma vagabunda lendo esse livro. Apesar de ser uma publicação de 1937, as situações que acontecem poderiam ocorrer facilmente no Brasil atual. Personagens escritos com profundidade, é extremamente fácil ter empatia com todos e entender suas dificuldades e erros.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Violence

Minor: Rape

sofiadidonato's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

Cara, que livro tenso. 

Já vou avisando logo; tem uma cena de estupro mais ou menos em 1/3 do livro, que é bem explícita por sinal. Esse livro eu li praticamente dissociando por causa do tom pesado dele (e temas).. é um livro maravilhosamente bem escrito , a crítica social é feita de uma forma diferente, quase que deixando as conclusões ao próprio leitor. Enfim, muito bom mas muito pesado, tenham em mente isso, e não vou deixar o início marcado como spoiler pq acho importante ressaltar

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Suicide, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Racism, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Classism, Abandonment, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Death

mosaicbrokenhearts's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

ungles's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

one of my favorites books, it's the one that got me into classics, but I understand that the themes can be really dark and not to everyone, but I really think Jorge amado had so much to talk about these children and I learned so much of this, I think that we should learn to separate the wrong action of the characters (and belive me shit hit the fan with these guys, they fucked up a LOT) and have the time in consideration (it was 1932 guys of course it's gonna be dark) of the quality of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Misogyny, Police brutality, Suicide, Sexual assault, Racism, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Incest, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, and Abandonment

yeah this is pretty fucked up

claredragonfly's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Racism