Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk

4 reviews

anna_pearl's review

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Cursing, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Infidelity, Violence, War, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gore, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Child death

tosia_zaw's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

Bardzo interesująca książka. Niezwykle podobał mi się styl pisania, był bardzo poetycki, baśniowy, dokładny, tajemniczy. Książka nie skupia się na opisywaniu emocji bohaterów, a całej ich historii trwania kiedy w tle dzieją się wojny i następują różne zmiany historyczne. Ma ona bardzo ciekawe zestawienie bohaterów, Genowefa i Kuska są swoimi kompletnymi przeciwieństwami (ale czy napewno?) a jednak stają się głowami rodziny. Podoba mi się jak opisywany jest czas z perspektywy rzeczy martwych. Wydaje mi się jakby czas miał własny bieg w tej książce.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

joshhornbeck's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

FIRST THOUGHTS:
This is an absolute masterpiece. A series of small vignettes that all take place in the same small Polish village (and its surrounding areas), the novel follows three generations of the village’s inhabitants as they survive war and occupation, get married and have children, and learn what it means to live and move through this broken and miraculously beautiful world. There are gorgeous movements into myth and magical realism, where the trees become characters, the dead march through the village, and angels guard our protagonists. And there are moments of brutally realistic violence and assault as the novel explores what it means to be a country that have been occupied over the years by different invading armies. It effortlessly captures the passage of time - how swift and steady it is, how you’re a child one moment and an old man the next. And there is so much here about faith and gender roles and our relationship to the earth and our rootedness to place… I feel like I could only begin to scratch the surface here. This is an outstanding novel - one of my favorite books of the year. And it’s one I certainly need to return to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, War, and Xenophobia

sourryebread's review

reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Rape, War, Death, and Sexual content