Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

478 reviews

airahkaz's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual assault, and War

Minor: Vomit

cirrenamarie's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

3.5

When they said minor detail they meant it. Every minor detail that could be shared is which made it feel like a slow read. It is the most literary fiction book I’ve ever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Murder

Moderate: War

crcrane's review against another edition

dark sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Important read but a very heavy topic 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and War

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.25

Like a fly caught in a spider’s web, I got trapped without even realizing it in the minor details of this story. The mundanity of this story is the great genius of this book and yet also the thing that makes it hard to read. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Rinse and repeat. Horror upon horror. 
While I was reading the first section, I wanted so badly to get past it, and onto the next section, but as soon as I did, I found myself retracing the story’s steps, wanting to go back to check the minor details, to compare them over and over again. The experience was deeply harrowing, and yet, I think I’ll be thinking about this book for a long time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and War

maria_fr's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

rachela_7's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Police brutality, Colonisation, and War

hammerhead69's review against another edition

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

carojust's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

5.0

Adania Shibli shows us the darkest side of humanity, a reality we can't ignore, in painfully beautiful and stark writing. 

The first half feels blurry, sweltering, full of smells and you feel yourself fearing, unsure what this character will do. He ends up doing the worst, and you see that you're witnessing hell. 

The second half is a complete character, POV, timeline and tone shift, told through an autistic-leaning narrator who describes, in complete detail, her world as a Palestinian in recent years. With no sense of emotion, she talks about bombings that she works and sleeps through. We follow her as she retraces the events from the first half. 

Shibli artfully weaves details and symbolism from both timelines into each other. It has a heartstopping effect, when you see that things haven't changed. The ending emphasizes this. 

Please read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Vomit, Kidnapping, War, and Injury/Injury detail

anniereads221's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and War

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