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بينما ينام العالم by Susan Abulhawa

40 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Antisemitism, Dementia, and Kidnapping

Minor: Rape

hammerhead69's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

deckleeditproof's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Hate crime, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Blood, Dementia, and Death of parent

emeryboyd's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This is a heartbreaking story of the suffering, strength and hope of the Palestinian people. And although these characters are fictional they represent the lives of real people. I hope that one day Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

teabeansss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

fiifarts's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

This book was heartbreaking and beautiful. It provided such a very real and heavy account of one family and the generations of tragedy and loss they experienced at the hands of the Israeli occupation. How love still grows amongst a lifetime of fear, displacement and death. How hearts can break and freeze, and that moments of connection with loved ones can save and thaw them. This book was utterly devastating and heart-wrenchingly beautiful. April blooms 🌱

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Racism, Suicide, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, and Pregnancy

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Miscarriage, Alcohol, and Deportation

madelinekramer2021's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Islamophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

andremay's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Alcoholism

nessreadsalot's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense 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? No

5.0

This beautifully written debut novel from Susan Abulhawa tells the story of four generations of the Palestinian Abulheja family. Beginning with their forced removal from Ein Hod in 1948 to the Jenin refugee camp where Amal is born and brings us through her life. We experience her childhood, love, loss, marriage and motherhood. 

From heartbreaking moments of loss to the wonderfully magical stories of joy this is a wonderful book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hegesteindal74's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

In need of some editing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Torture, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Deportation

Minor: Pregnancy