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morebedsidebooks's review against another edition
2.0
Every time G. had been drinking too much, his wife shunned him and the sickening smell of drink and tobacco he gave off. She would go and sleep with her children at the other end of the platform. G. lay on his back with bleary eyes and kept calling out, “N., come here — I’m waiting!” “Leave me alone!” she retorted in a sharp, shrill voice. The next hour witnessed an endless series of appeals followed invariably by refusals. Finally, in his absolute determination for sexual relief, G. would step across his sleepless children to get at his wife. She had her own strange method of putting up greater resistance, which involved hugging one of her sons — always the same eight-year-old boy — tight against herself. Protecting his mother by holding her close in his arms, the howling, weeping child would fight off his drunken father with tremendous kicks in the face which sometimes made his father’s nose bleed. Soon the man would fall back out of breath, but he quickly returned to the attack amid shrieks and tears from all the children. This unbelievable scene would drag on sometimes till morning, with momentary pauses and savage resumptions. The little boy in question had once announced that some day he would kill his father, because he was making life a torture for his mother.
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Death, Racism, Excrement, Murder, Pregnancy, and Colonisation
Other content includes poverty, polygamy, and proselytization. Various treatment towards animals and food preparation, including of animals is described in graphic detail.thesapphiccelticbookworm's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, and Violence
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, and Colonisation
katiewhocanread's review against another edition
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, and Alcohol
Minor: Child abuse, Incest, and Slavery
literaryrevisited's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Animal death and Blood
Minor: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Colonisation