Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss by Edmund de Waal

3 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

2.75

"You assimilate, but you need somewhere to go. You keep your passport to hand. You keep something private."
This is more a family story than a book about art or Jewish history. There were times I felt great kinship with de Waal and the Ephrussi family, and other times I felt nothing at all. Our shared ethnicity was not enough to tie us together. 
But through it all I felt such deep sadness - in such a time of destruction and loss, why do you get your art collections back when my grandmother will never know the names of her aunts when both were taken in the same instance?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Antisemitism, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Torture and Confinement

tea_tamai's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Das erste Drittel des Buches zieht sich, jedoch finde ich das dies im Anblick auf Inhalt und Themen passend die erzählte Geschichte widerspiegelt.
Ich bin froh, es gelesen zu haben und kann es nur weiterempfehlen, für alle die sich mehr mit Geschichte, Kunst und Antisemitismus auseinander setzen wollen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, War, Genocide, and Deportation

Moderate: Physical abuse and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity

itsheyfay's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism and Hate crime

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Infidelity, Death, and War

Minor: Cursing and Death