Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Cisnes Selvagens by Jung Chang

12 reviews

turidt's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and War

Moderate: Death, Gore, Suicide, Blood, and Death of parent

getyourghosts's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

A story of human nature

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Torture, Medical trauma, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Bullying, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, and War

carmentxx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

on my cover Mary Wesley writes that ‘it is impossible to exaggerate the important of this book’. in my ignorance i said to my friend, how important can it be? yeah, pretty fucking important. one of the only truthful, harrowing, beyond emotional memoirs to come out of the apocalyptic, cultish nightmare that was 20th century china. how can you give this book anything other than 5 stars? this book took me through every inch of human emotion and poured every detail of the horror- and small amounts of relentless hope- that maoist china enforced. mao was a psychopathic sadist who thrived on horror, destruction, and genocide of his own people. we can never forget. we will not forget. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, War, and Classism

dch7's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Classism

rdorrington's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Miscarriage, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

philosopher_kj's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Colonisation, War, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, and Abortion

alexhaydon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, and Injury/Injury detail

josiee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

montyalmoro's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

schnarlie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

A deeply fascinating book that helped me understand the history and politics of China while at the same time making me feel deeply with the described people. Highly recommend this to anyone Chinese or interested in China, but also might be interesting to those who aren't either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, and Classism