Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Herkunft by Saša Stanišić

3 reviews

georgiepie's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

The last line of the first chapter reads: “It is March 7, 2018, in Višegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Grandmother is eighty-seven years old and eleven years old.” This sentence alone captures the heart of the novel; a sense that appearance, reality, the past and the present are in a constant state of flux. It’s an auto-fiction, a memoir with exaggeration, it’s a journey through memories - tender, silly, horrible.

What a gem Where You Come From was. Less of an excavation of the mundane, a walk in dirty laundry, and more an examination of mundanity in the aftermath of a cataclysmic event. Stanišić shows us how to create a life after war changes everything, when the country you were rooted in no longer exists. Where did this country go? If the country no longer exists, what happens to its people? 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide, Racial slurs, and War

antonia_sundrup's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Dementia, Islamophobia, War, and Racial slurs

gertrudski's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racial slurs