Reviews tagging 'Grief'

L'amante giapponese by Isabel Allende, Elena Liverani

3 reviews

kam_pearson's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

marcella's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a lovely, slowly revealed biopic. 

The least charitable way to read this is a thin narrative of attraction shuffled along by a series of ghastly horrors. I found the depictions of the Japanese internment camps compelling (stripping away dignity and freedom from a huge and arbitrary group), but the

brutal child abuse scenes

came out of nowhere and felt gratuitously awful. 

I liked the prose and the narrator, though. And I liked all the old folks with rich inner selves, living life with various degrees of independence, and learning to accept new limitations without caving into them. Perhaps some of the various misfortunes that befell the characters felt overwrought because it covered multiple long lives compressed into one book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Racism, and Rape

kommatator's review against another edition

angefangen: 18.03.2021
abgebrochen: 19.03.2021 
Rest überflogen. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, and Racism

Minor: Cancer, Drug abuse, and Incest