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jaan's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Racial slurs and Blood
Moderate: Domestic abuse and Sexual violence
Kpomassie wrote this travelogue during the 1950s, at which point the widespread practice was to refer to native Greenlanders as “Esk*mos,” rather than as Inuit. The slur is all over the book.morebedsidebooks's review against another edition
2.0
Every time G. had been drinking too much, his wife shunned him and the sickening smell of drink and tobacco he gave off. She would go and sleep with her children at the other end of the platform. G. lay on his back with bleary eyes and kept calling out, “N., come here — I’m waiting!” “Leave me alone!” she retorted in a sharp, shrill voice. The next hour witnessed an endless series of appeals followed invariably by refusals. Finally, in his absolute determination for sexual relief, G. would step across his sleepless children to get at his wife. She had her own strange method of putting up greater resistance, which involved hugging one of her sons — always the same eight-year-old boy — tight against herself. Protecting his mother by holding her close in his arms, the howling, weeping child would fight off his drunken father with tremendous kicks in the face which sometimes made his father’s nose bleed. Soon the man would fall back out of breath, but he quickly returned to the attack amid shrieks and tears from all the children. This unbelievable scene would drag on sometimes till morning, with momentary pauses and savage resumptions. The little boy in question had once announced that some day he would kill his father, because he was making life a torture for his mother.
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Death, Racism, Excrement, Murder, Pregnancy, and Colonisation
Other content includes poverty, polygamy, and proselytization. Various treatment towards animals and food preparation, including of animals is described in graphic detail.jasschumacher's review against another edition
3.0
"I was now convinced that I was living among people no different from any other men on this earth [...]." (pg. 208)
"[...] I had never missed my native Africa, for the poetry of movement of the ice froze up the muggy heat of my native tropics. I had adapted so well to Greenland that I believed nothing could stop me spending the rest of my days there." (pg. 297)
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racial slurs, Blood, and Alcohol
seanamcphie's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
katiewhocanread's review against another edition
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, and Alcohol
Minor: Child abuse, Incest, and Slavery
literaryrevisited's review against another edition
4.75
Moderate: Animal death and Blood
Minor: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Colonisation