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birchmezz's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
socorrobaptista's review against another edition
emotional
informative
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Acho que foi um dos livros mais difíceis de ler que encontrei em minha jornada de leitora, por ser não ficção e por ser tão cruelmente factual. Fiquei até me sentindo mal. Embora a autora não descreva todas as violências cometidas, elas são claras, evidenciadas nas palavras escolhidas, nas entrelinhas. Eu sempre quero manter minha fá na humanidade, mas isso fica bem difícil algumas vezes.
chillcox15's review against another edition
4.0
In turn a memoir of the author memories of her mother and a more ethnographic depiction of life in communities of displaced Tutsis. Mukasonga's authorial voice is excellent, weaving together different aspects of the feminine life that her mother, along with the other women in her community, navigated on a daily basis. I do think we lose her mother a bit as the book goes on, leaning more into the communal in place of the specific, but I acknowledge that may be my own societal expectation of individuality bearing some weight.