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piripiw's review against another edition
3.0
Some lovely descriptive prose. Grounded in the everyday and the immediate environment. But lacking social and political context (and, therefore, substantial characters) in a way that really lessened the interest and impact for me.
It also felt a bit dismissive of African independence & class struggles to a, lump them all together and b, speed run through them to everyone either selling out/fading into irrelevance.
If the moral of the parable is how humans turn away from each other's specificity and humanity you have to spend a bit more time turning towards those things I think, so we can feel the gravity of what is lost.
It also felt a bit dismissive of African independence & class struggles to a, lump them all together and b, speed run through them to everyone either selling out/fading into irrelevance.
If the moral of the parable is how humans turn away from each other's specificity and humanity you have to spend a bit more time turning towards those things I think, so we can feel the gravity of what is lost.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Xenophobia, and Murder
Incarceration (this should be an available tag imo)nialiversuch's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Xenophobia
Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
magpieslibrary's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Xenophobia