Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

93 reviews

hammerhead69's review

adventurous dark informative reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

I was stuck between giving this book 5 stars or 1. Fantastic writing but the ending had me screaming!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Islamophobia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

pikkumarja's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.5

Pieni, mutta suuri kirja palestiinalaisista miehityksen alla. Kirja jakautuu kahteen osaan, joista ensimmäisessä kuvataan israelilaisen sotilaan arkea, jolla etäännytetään taitavasti kauheat asiat, mitä sotilaat tekevät palestiinalaiselle naiselle. Toisessa osassa nainen lukee artikkelin, jossa puhutaan ensimmäisen osan naisen kuolemasta. Tapahtumapäivämäärän ja naisen syntymäpäivän yhteys on sellainen sivuseikka, jota ei voi unohtaa ja niin nainen alkaa lähes pakkomielteisesti selvittää, mitä on tapahtunut.

Kirja on aivan upea! Suuri romaani n. 100 sivussa. Free Palestine!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Islamophobia, Medical content, Murder, and War

akrreads's review

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Islamophobia, Colonisation, and War

maiahhtratchh's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense 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

4.0

I love sad and emotional novels and yet never in my life have a read a book that caused such dread that the contents of this book settled deep in me like a stone. Current events and the books proximity to Rafah do play heavily into how impactful it was but, even without that, this novel would still evoke such strong emotions in me. The first part actually gave me nightmares of this happening to my loved ones. If anyone is wanting to read about the Palestinian experience, specifically a more historic view point, I would recommend this book. I am glad it was so short though because I don’t think I could’ve handled much more of the intensity specifically in the last two pages it really got to me. I wanted to read it twice in a row because of how short it is to fully catch everything but I think I need to take a break and read something lighter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Misogyny, Torture, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

Minor: War

maxgdy's review

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, and Colonisation

kristakp's review

dark 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Xenophobia, War, and Injury/Injury detail

emeliajane97's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Colonisation, and War

saylaa's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A

4.5

Hard but important to read. While reading both parts have been filled with some sense of dread - either for the inevitable thing to happen (first part), or what could happen to the protagonist of the second part and whether they can return to their home, while still experiencing minor situations (one might say details) that mirror the girl who got killed at the end of the first part. 
From a writing perspective - I liked the two completely different narrative voices: the 3rd person view of the IDF soldier (confident, without much emotions/and any remorse @ his actions), and the 1st person view of an Palestinian woman from the west bank having to been grown up and live under those conditions  - her constant anxiety and neuroticism (stemming from the trauma of being occupied, oppressed, bombed, and not allowed to move freely)

(Might come back to continue to review this after i have sorted my thoughts - also trying to start and get better at reviewing) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Islamophobia, and War

Moderate: Rape and Violence

brynalexa's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

The first part was extremely emotional to read. It’s very hard to put yourself into a camp of bigoted colonizers for 50 pages. The second part was two parts lovely and one part dread. It came together in the end. Very moving. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Islamophobia

Minor: Genocide and Alcohol

maddiereadswords's review against another edition

4.5

A book that is equal parts heavy and powerful. Check the trigger warnings before reading, but god is it worth a read if you can handle it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail