Reviews tagging 'War'

Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir

3 reviews

bookreviewswithkb's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense

5.0

a harrowing personal account of survival amongst intense tragedy, loss, and war. the author’s willingness to share her story in order to bring awareness of the war in Darfur is beyond remarkable, detailing the most personal of details about love and sacrifice and triumph. it’s certainly not an easy read but i highly recommend it, especially for part of a deeper understanding of the personal impact of war on human lives 

the conflict, genocide and war continues to rage in Sudan at this present moment. over 10,000 people have been killed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Torture, Genocide, Rape, War, and Sexual violence

writingcaia's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I don’t recommend it if you are those who prefer not to know the terrible things happening in the world, or that can be triggered by the events portrayed in this memoir.
This is but one story that tells of the genocide in Darfur of the Black Muslims.
It starts with a happy childhood, marked with some difficulty accepting some of the traditions of her people, followed by learning the hate from the Arabic Muslims in school, to becoming a doctor among the political tumult and stories of attacks to villages, to Halima being persecuted by working in a hospital and helping others like her, and all that so many suffered in Darfur, to finally after a long period in the U.K. being granted asylum.

I barely remember this happening, and it’s so horrible to perceive how outside, these people, these stories are just numbers and letters on a newscast, but not anymore, not after this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, War, Child death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Deportation, Genocide, Racism, Animal death, Hate crime, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Classism

betag1013's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Animal death, Death, Body horror, Stalking, Confinement, Chronic illness, Classism, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Medical content, Rape, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Abandonment, War, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Child death, Colonisation, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Racism