Reviews tagging 'Rape'

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

11 reviews

phoenixcrying's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Rape, and War

freesiaelect's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Violence, Racism, and Child death

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

two_octopuses's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

3.75

Really devestating stories about of the Rwandan genocide, and the consequences of Western country/NGO influence. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Racism, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Gore, Sexual violence, Torture, and Rape

zephyrscape's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Genocide

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide

hughesie's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, War, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Mass/school shootings, Rape, Murder, Grief, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, and Racism

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

eggshells29's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Rape, Racism, War, Sexual violence, Murder, Xenophobia, and Torture

piabo's review

4.0

After living in Rwanda for more than a year (over the span of 4 years), visiting the genocide memorial in Kigali, attending Kwibuka, listening to a genocide podcast, and reading two books about the genocide, I thought there is not much more I can learn. Especially not from a book written by some white dude from the US.
But I was wrong.

This book is actually great. It does not only talk about the genocide itself but situates in well into its context of its time. Not just before, but also in the years after 1994.

I think the author did a good job. Really.

What I found especially interesting was the attempt to humanize the events during and around the genocide. The killings were not an abstract thing, they really happened. And the people of Rwanda are real people. Just like you and me. It is very important to never forget that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Murder, and Racism

Moderate: War, Violence, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Rape

Minor: Colonisation

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

I give this book 3,5 stars not because I didn’t like it or because it was too sad to be enjoyable but because it is outdated. Reading this was hard because I had to constantly remind myself that these were real people most of who are still alive today and still remember seeing their families being murdered by friends and neighbors. Reading about all the guilty people denying anything happened was depressing as well. Overall I am glad I read it though because I only knew that the genocide happened, not how, why, or what happened afterwards.Also I want to add that this book made me very angry at times, because of how everyone that could help ignored this, and the way Rwandans who could help others chose not to or chose to kill.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Genocide, Hate crime, Murder, Rape, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

laurabarrett's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Car accident, Colonisation, Death of parent, Misogyny, Police brutality, Xenophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

belladeriso's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Child abuse, Gore, Mass/school shootings, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Death, Genocide, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Rape