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rosalielovesbooks's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
1004yoon's review against another edition
challenging
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.0
natalielim's review against another edition
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
stellaxk's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
5.0
gut wrenching
annelvogel's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
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
5.0
stlake's review against another edition
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Winced a lot. Written bare and yet so vivid. I hope the spider bite took him in the end.
The details are exquisite-- the gasoline smell, the dunes, the nagging itch.
A quick but difficult read. Not fiction to enjoy, but fiction that is necessary. Something I would recommend to others who read fiction to encounter the contradictions of the Human condition. And reading an Arab author write about the occupation of Palestine seems a necessary trust to extend. For the first half, in the third person, we are intimately hovering over the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1948. In the second half, we are the first person inside a young Palestinian woman who has read of this soldier's command of the discarding of a Bedouin woman found in the vicinity of their camp near the Egypt border. She retraces the scene of this crime, hoping to find something like the truth of what happened.The only "truth" is that it still happens, indiscriminantly. She is likely killed in the same area that the Bedouin woman was killed. Arab women live the truth-- trying to "know" it is too late
The details are exquisite-- the gasoline smell, the dunes, the nagging itch.
A quick but difficult read. Not fiction to enjoy, but fiction that is necessary. Something I would recommend to others who read fiction to encounter the contradictions of the Human condition. And reading an Arab author write about the occupation of Palestine seems a necessary trust to extend. For the first half, in the third person, we are intimately hovering over the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1948. In the second half, we are the first person inside a young Palestinian woman who has read of this soldier's command of the discarding of a Bedouin woman found in the vicinity of their camp near the Egypt border. She retraces the scene of this crime, hoping to find something like the truth of what happened.
charmcanread's review against another edition
4.0
so devastating and powerful for something so short. so much to unpack in every page.
this book is divided into two parts:
1. the first part is told thru the perspective of an israeli soldier where they capture, assault, and kill a bedouin girl.
2. the second part is from a palestinian woman's pov from the present day. we follow her journey as she becomes curious about the 'minor detail' of history told in the first part of the book.
as much as it was difficult to read, i definitely want to revisit this and try to unpack all the choices the author made between both parts of the book.
this book is divided into two parts:
1. the first part is told thru the perspective of an israeli soldier where they capture, assault, and kill a bedouin girl.
2. the second part is from a palestinian woman's pov from the present day. we follow her journey as she becomes curious about the 'minor detail' of history told in the first part of the book.
as much as it was difficult to read, i definitely want to revisit this and try to unpack all the choices the author made between both parts of the book.
heispa's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75