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ninniniko's review against another edition
challenging
informative
sad
slow-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Colonisation, Genocide, and Slavery
hannahpings's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
required reading.
remarkably researched, presented, and synthesized. ghosh is a deft writer and storyteller, and with the nutmeg's curse presents (this is not hyperbole!) the most well-crafted work i've ever read. there was a moment about two-thirds of the way through the book that absolutely took my breath away: a clear conclusion that i couldn't have seen coming, but up to which every word i'd read so far––even seeming asides and discursions––had been leading. there's also a deep care here, an unflinching earnestness and kinship without which this book couldn't exist, and it's all the better for it.
remarkably researched, presented, and synthesized. ghosh is a deft writer and storyteller, and with the nutmeg's curse presents (this is not hyperbole!) the most well-crafted work i've ever read. there was a moment about two-thirds of the way through the book that absolutely took my breath away: a clear conclusion that i couldn't have seen coming, but up to which every word i'd read so far––even seeming asides and discursions––had been leading. there's also a deep care here, an unflinching earnestness and kinship without which this book couldn't exist, and it's all the better for it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Racism, Genocide, Classism, Death, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic, and War
Moderate: Slavery, Police brutality, and Trafficking
Minor: Suicide
mosswood's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
This is a must read. It is written so beautifully about some of the most challenging topics I've come across. It is absolutely captivatingly convincing of a framing of climate change that needs drastically more attention. Absolutely incredible piece of research and writing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation
beholderess's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation
Moderate: Death, Slavery, and Trafficking
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