Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Маленькая страна by Gaël Faye

15 reviews

ron1's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, and War

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

The Rwanda genocide is covered in this book.

svenia_dracul's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

If you like being on a roller-coaster of emotions and graphic, like REALLY graphic scenes, this is for you. I was chuckling at one second and the next I was feeling like I could vomit, don't watch this while eating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Self harm, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Antisemitism

kiarra_s's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Gabriel's story starts off lighthearted and cute. I had a couple laughs in the beginning, and I really enjoyed the descriptions of what his childhood was like. The story quickly becomes dark, however, when the war/genocide ensue. The author did an incredible job depicting everything, especially the way the characters developed in the aftermath.

"Perhaps this was what war meant: understanding nothing."

I can't agree more! I'm walking away from this book with a lot on my heart and mind, but the deep-seated hatred of a group of people/the genocide of a people is truly incomprehensible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Xenophobia, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Racism, and Death of parent

aseel_reads's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

This was a beautiful but absolutely heart wrenching story to read. You knew from the start that horrific events were going to happen, and you were just waiting for them

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Rape, and Death of parent

stellahadz's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

L'histoire émouvante d'un jeune garçon qui grandit dans l'ombre du génocide rwandais et de la guerre civile burundaise. Ce serait un bon roman à explorer dans un cours d'histoire ou de français au secondaire. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, and War

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit

jj2020's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Genocide, Racism, Violence, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Gun violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Colonisation

paperquilt's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

anansi_girrl's review

reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and War

crazytourists_books's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

The story of the book is set in Burundi (that shares borders and ethnic groups with Rwanda) in 1994, just before, during, and after the Tutsi and Twa genoside in Rwanda (by the Hutu, for those of you that are too young to remember). The protagonist is 10 or eleven years old, the age that I was that year. 
Only I was safe in Athens, Greece, getting fragments of the news (no internet back then), and the protagonist of the book was there, in the middle of the "storm". 
It is a simply written yet interesting book. The perspective of a young child, of the war and the genocide, might be more naive than that of an adult, but it can be equally heartbreaking. 
My daughter is now ten, and I can't even imagine her reading about events like that, forget living them. I think I'll give her this book in a couple of years...
(If you are interested in the Rwandan civil war and genocide, I would strongly recommend the memoir of a survivor, "The girl who smiled beads".)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

bookynooknook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Genocide, Racism, Xenophobia, and Murder