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A review by bookybrookey
First, They Erased Our Name: a Rohingya Speaks by Habiburahman, Sophie Ansel
3.0
This book was full of horrible events but there was too much time spent pre-conflict and not enough depth into what happened later. The writing was also pretty bad in some places, particularly the beginning, which made me want to put it down.
I’m hoping more Rohingya stories will come out over the years as it is a genocide that needs to be heard about around the world and I feel like this one novel does not do enough to go into the events in Myanmar.
In saying all this, it was still a good introduction into the causes, effects and covering-up of the genocide, and the second half was much better than the first, to the point that I found it hard to put down.
I’m hoping more Rohingya stories will come out over the years as it is a genocide that needs to be heard about around the world and I feel like this one novel does not do enough to go into the events in Myanmar.
In saying all this, it was still a good introduction into the causes, effects and covering-up of the genocide, and the second half was much better than the first, to the point that I found it hard to put down.