Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Cockroaches by Jordan Stump, Scholastique Mukasonga

11 reviews

treenakay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Death, Grief, and Genocide

ellawalken's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

3.75

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Graphic: Genocide and Violence

ynotlime's review against another edition

5.0

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Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Genocide

Moderate: Rape

lidia7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Graphic: Gore, Grief, Child death, Death of parent, Genocide, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcohol

eepi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Rape

charliebnl's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Set in Rwanda, this memoir is a story about family. A story about how genocides built up over decades. A story that humanises victims and reminds us that they were there. 

 

Whenever I have read or watched anything covering the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, the statistics are what is often highlighted around this event. 100 days. 1 million dead. It never covers the nuances. How the Hutu were conditioned over decades to dehumanise the Tutsis. How there were a couple of massacres that occurred over the decades that would lead to this massive murder. How no one ever mentions the BaTwa. How the 1 million were people with dreams, desires, faults, opportunities, joys, and pains. 

 

What Scholastique does so beautifully in this memoir is to showcase the real lives of her family and community, paying them the ultimate homage of humanising them in their deaths. 

 

A quick read that, whilst covering some painful and traumatic events, does so in an honourable way. A must-read for everyone, even if you don’t read Non-Fiction.

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Moderate: Genocide, Violence, and Death

krista_lm's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Murder, Grief, and Genocide

Moderate: Rape

elizabethwillett's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Rape

lady_ness's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Moderate: Bullying, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, and Hate crime

dwellordream's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Genocide and Grief