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Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Colonisation
Moderate: Genocide, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail
Things Fall Apart remains a literary masterpiece almost three decades since its release. At first slow and meandering, offering a survey of Igbo culture prior to the devastation of British forces, this novel shows just how quickly and suddenly a people can be made to fall apart when faced with colonial rule and violence.
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Murder, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War
I had to sit with this one a while because i knew i loved the first half (5/5) but wasn’t sure how i felt about the second. A big narrative shift happens. Most of the plot of the first half happens in the course of a couple of weeks or months at most. The second half covers ~10 years and the time skips and exposition is such that we lose contact with characters and their relationships which does mirror the effect of colonialism on the community. I get *why* in that sense, but parts of the second half felt rushed and maybe underdeveloped where the first half was SO illustrative and intimate. So I didnt enjoy the second half as much. I took my time, annotated, took notes on the first half but made almost no marks in the second, if that tells you anything. I’d still reccomend, its a quick read just definitely mot your Why Colonialism is Bad 101 bc thats not what the book is going for.
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, War
Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation
Moderate: Racism, Torture
Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Suicide, Religious bigotry
Moderate: Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Pregnancy
Minor: Slavery