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A review by hopedihop
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zerán
2.0
The book tells us four stories about women who also were murderers. Alia Trabucco Zerán wanted to build stories around them and also dig into feminism.
Well.. The stories about the women frame a rather short period of their life, we don't really get to know them, except for maybe the last Story about Teresa. I excpected more from this book, deeper analyses, deeper stories and a deeper feministic approach. All these chilean women share interesting stories that should be told, but I can't loose the feeling, that they maybe should be told by someone else.
Additionally the Autors own diarie entries really botheres me. It read like a voice over in a documentation about an artist. I could have gladly lived without them in this book.
And lastly, there are some.. explicit and detailed pictures in the book without any kind of contend warning. Trabucco Zerán even says "[...] the violent murder were illustrated with images that today would be unlikely to be shown to the general public." and then proceeds to show those specific pictures.
Well.. The stories about the women frame a rather short period of their life, we don't really get to know them, except for maybe the last Story about Teresa. I excpected more from this book, deeper analyses, deeper stories and a deeper feministic approach. All these chilean women share interesting stories that should be told, but I can't loose the feeling, that they maybe should be told by someone else.
Additionally the Autors own diarie entries really botheres me. It read like a voice over in a documentation about an artist. I could have gladly lived without them in this book.
And lastly, there are some.. explicit and detailed pictures in the book without any kind of contend warning. Trabucco Zerán even says "[...] the violent murder were illustrated with images that today would be unlikely to be shown to the general public." and then proceeds to show those specific pictures.