Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

1 review

himpersonal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

I’ve read most of his books, and I’m always struck by the vastness of his imagination. Satanic Verses was the first time I’d encountered magical realism, and I remember being grateful to be at a liberal arts college (Mount Holyoke) that was teaching it as part of an Islam class. My second book was Midnight’s Children, and that was the first time I’d learned about the Indian-Pakistani partition (also taught at Mount Holyoke as part of an Indian literature class). Since then, I’ve read almost every one of his books, and I’ve gained so much from all of them. So I was filled with sadness to find out that the reason he now wears eyeglasses with one side blacked out was due to a stabbing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic