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A review by emgusk
All the Rivers by Dorit Rabinyan
4.0
This was so well-written I zoomed through it over two days when I also worked and did other stuff! Banning it is stupid.
Things that were well done:
- Foreshadowing
- Displays of her privilege versus his lack of privilege (he doesn't know how to swim because of lack of access to the sea)
- Dialogue where people keep cutting one another off (seemed very Arabic/Israeli)
- 2002/2003 stuff, like leaving people voicemail and expecting them to be there and telling them to pick up
- Cutting the storytelling off right before a pivotal moment and still being able to figure out what happened when the book picks up again. This is a literary tool that some authors cannot use terribly well, but this author does!
- It is beautifully translated, even if allegories are knocking you over the head sometimes.
Things that were well done:
- Foreshadowing
- Displays of her privilege versus his lack of privilege (he doesn't know how to swim because of lack of access to the sea)
- Dialogue where people keep cutting one another off (seemed very Arabic/Israeli)
- 2002/2003 stuff, like leaving people voicemail and expecting them to be there and telling them to pick up
- Cutting the storytelling off right before a pivotal moment and still being able to figure out what happened when the book picks up again. This is a literary tool that some authors cannot use terribly well, but this author does!
- It is beautifully translated, even if allegories are knocking you over the head sometimes.