Reviews tagging 'Death'

Krigen har intet kvinnelig ansikt by Svetlana Alexiévich, Alf B. Glad

27 reviews

nornors's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Genocide, and Antisemitism

bridgeman98's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide

littleredwinter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

5.0

In the US, soldiers from WWII are lauded as heroes. We tend to view the western front of WWII as being the only front and forget about the men and especially women who fought for the Soviet Union on the eastern front. Further, WWII is seen by Americans even those who condemn other wars as uniquely moral and justified because we were fighting Nazis. What is not discussed is how even a war waged to end a genocide is bloody and brutal. Svetlana Alexievich does not censor the women she interviewed and they do not hold back. The horror of war rears its ugly head in plain view as these women describe in visceral detail exactly what they went through, how they felt about it then, and how they feel about it decades later now that they have been forced to live with it. This book is a thoughtful intersectional feminist view of war from the perspective of women who lived through that and relive it to this day. An especially important read with how few of them are left. I cannot recommend this enough. It will make you stop and carefully consider everything you learned in school and everything you believed about WWII. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

seph5040's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, and War

lizziaha's review against another edition

5.0

This book is just a deluge of pain and grief and raw humanity. And because of that humanity, hope and love manage to shine through, against all odds. This definitely reframed the Russian front for me, and gave me a whole new perspective on Russian women and their part in the war. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Deportation

sparky_lurkdragon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, and War

thebowandthebook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Vivid, stark and gruesome, this book spared little detail but provided a remarkable look into the sides of WW2 not often seen. Truly illuminated the difference between the woman's views on war and the men's. Excellent read, so many stories... so many lives.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Chronic illness, Cursing, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical content, and Abortion

wiktoria_bojda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Rape and Sexism

rcsreads's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

cword's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail