Reviews tagging 'Sexual harassment'

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

10 reviews

shaynicole's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Violence, Death, Genocide, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Murder, Rape, and Sexual harassment

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

sudden, abrupt, and utterly devastating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexism, Death, Violence, War, Alcohol, Genocide, Murder, Grief, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Child death, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Torture

neverlandpages4's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexism, Police brutality, Murder, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, Racism, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Grief, Death, Violence, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, War, and Genocide

katreena's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Colonisation, Gun violence, Hate crime, Police brutality, Violence, Cursing, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Child abuse, Gore, Sexual content, Rape, Torture, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Vomit, Death, Emotional abuse, War, and Genocide

aebrossbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 I knew this book was going to be powerful, but I underestimated how strong it really was.

It's broken into two parts. The first occurs in 1949, the latter occurs in a more modern Gaza (2017 is when the book was originally written). I personally found the 1949 half more intriguing, but this means little when the entire work was so meaningful and deep. The latter, more modern narrative was intense and heartbreaking, a testament to suffering and trauma.

A quick warning: there mentions of and allusions to violence and sexual assault, as well as descriptions of bombing and occupation forces with weapons and without mercy.

I recommend this one, but it is intense, and the reader should be aware of that going into this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Gun violence

cturn's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexual assault, Murder, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Gun violence

bergha1998's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

There’s an old saying I’ve heard about tragedies, don’t show the faces of many tell the story of one. I think this book does such a great job of that. Giving us a main character, whose pretty quirky, and showing how hard her life is as a Palestinian. Making the apartheid Palestinians experience so visceral and personal. My one criticism is the beginning half through the soldier’s POV. I didn’t like the writing as much as the rest of the book. Although I get why it was told (for context), the rest of the story was far more compelling. 

“Sometimes it’s inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific.”

“The truth of it will never stop chasing me.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Religious bigotry, Blood, Racism, Confinement, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, and War

rosie135790's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.0

so I believe the old woman and the girl we see in the end or the same girl in the beginning. Also once we found out that this was a military shooting area, I thought they would use her as target practice. Then when she put her hand in her pocket for gum I was like well she is going to die now. Then she did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Rape, Murder, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Islamophobia, Racism, and Animal cruelty

bookswithbethx's review against another edition

dark emotional informative 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, War, Torture, Sexual violence, Child death, Colonisation, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Misogyny, Genocide, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Sexual content, and Rape

readingwithcoffee's review

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Heavy book that’s not for the faint of heart but important and the author fits so much of Palestinian present and past in the short novella and I will have to reread to get the symbolism with the dogs and the smell of gasoline 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Murder, Death, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Rape, Violence, and Xenophobia