Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Repubblica sorda by Ilya Kaminsky

18 reviews

paperquilt's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

molly_kate's review against another edition

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Police brutality, Death of parent, and War

alyssatuininga's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Beautiful and powerful. The last poem brings the whole story into the here and now. Heartbreaking and raw. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

lazydazey's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Child death and Murder

hamstringy's review against another edition

challenging emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Jesus Christ. Kaminsky is a brutal writer. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War

juliethere's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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: Child death, Violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, and War

zabiume's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

The writing style was so gut-wrenching and precise, so evocative and vivid, that it really comes alive in the mind's imagination. I liked the way the entire story unfolds like an epic (somewhere between poetry and drama). The author tackles some intriguing themes, like trying to live your life amidst global (or local) political crises – and the complexities of that life as well. A lot of lines were truly beautiful and makes you ponder about human resistance, interconnectedness, hope and faith. Kaminsky captures little nuances or gestures of human behavior that pull you into the poetry and make it very believable. I thought it was very clever how he integrated the semi-autobiographical (his own experience with deafness), with the political (deafness as a form or protest or insurgency).

There were some parts I didn't get, but I think that's entirely a me problem. Overall, this was a short but good read! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Police brutality, and War

halfcactus's review against another edition

sad

4.0

This was a short but very very very difficult read. :( It's a poetry collection that's written with the structure of a stageplay, and it's brilliantly executed but extremely heavy and devastating. As the title suggests, it covers the full spectrum of what deafness means to a people, from unified resistance/rebellion to individualistic selfishness and desensitization. It's very much a story of systemic oppression, how it wears you down and breaks your sense of humanity, how violent silence can be. The opening and ending poems tie you back to the present, reminds you how current these issues still are, no matter where you are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, and War

jialatlibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, and War

saint_eleanor's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

Beautiful and thoughtful

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Rape