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ericeigenbrodt's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
habazie's review against another edition
2.0
Są dwie opcje:
- albo jestem za głupia na tę książkę
- albo jestem za głupia na tę książkę
Choose your fighter
- albo jestem za głupia na tę książkę
- albo jestem za głupia na tę książkę
Choose your fighter
blairmahoney's review against another edition
5.0
Deserved Man Booker International winner as far as I'm concerned. Powerful and uncanny and emotionally wrenching.
ellekiriel's review
I know this is supposed to be really good but I was just so bored and the husband as a narrator is horrid even despite knowing he’s an unreliable narrator.
ashleyconnor's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Very open-ended in a way that doesn’t do it any favors. Definitely a dark little novel with an interesting premise, but it wasn’t particularly satisfying or moving for me.
chitraa's review
3.0
"In-hye recalled how Yeong-hye had looked when she’d been standing on her hands. Had Yeong-hye mistaken the hospital’s concrete floor for the soft earth of the woods? Had her body metamorphosed into a sturdy trunk, with white roots sprouting from her hands and clutching the black soil? Had her legs stretched high up into the air while her arms extended all the way down to the earth’s very core, her back stretched taut to support this two-pronged spurt of growth? As the sun’s rays soaked down through Yeong-hye’s body, had the water that was saturating the soil been drawn up through her cells, eventually to bloom from her crotch as flowers? "
Reading this felt like i was floating between the patches of thoughts and inward reality of the characters. I'm not sure if i get it completely but this book feels like it's written not to be understood but to be witnessed.
Reading this felt like i was floating between the patches of thoughts and inward reality of the characters. I'm not sure if i get it completely but this book feels like it's written not to be understood but to be witnessed.
rhyvir's review
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Unbelievably boring. I didn’t find the prose that interesting nor beautiful - it just seemed at times like she was trying too hard to be profound but fell flat. The three perspectives didn’t feel cohesive, and frustratingly enough it lacked the perspective from the person supposedly suffering from mental illness - that felt problematic.
helena14's review
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25