Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Season of Migration to the North by الطيب صالح, Tayeb Salih

3 reviews

frank_desanna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Grief, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Death, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, Hate crime, Murder, Toxic friendship, Rape, Cursing, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

confuusedcreaturex4's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I still feel like I don't what to feel about this fever dream of  a book 
I liked the writing,he's certainly a good writer,I loved the descriptions and the places and so many things about the writing but I just couldn't look over the sexism and misogyny there even tho I know that it's understandable considering the time and place but I still didn't like how many times it wasn't addressed as an issue and sometimes even the characters that re aware of the wrongness of some things sometimes it feels like they act as if they don't think its that much of  abig deal, the explicit sexual scenes were just toooo much,the way Mustafa and some of the elderlies talks about women was just so disgusting and racist at so many times,I read  a lot of reviews to see what other people thought about this cause  know it has to signify something bigger about colonization and all but I stillfeel like that wasn't the best way to talk about it ,in just 200 pages there was  a lot of stuff and I was often left confused and perplexed,I'm sure with time ill probably change my mind about so many things and think about some others but for now that's all of it and unf again still cant really wrap my head around it for some reason 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Rape, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Death, Cursing, Colonisation, Blood, Alcohol, Grief, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Self harm, Racism, and Classism

samothraces's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Rape, and Racism