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kaarna's review against another edition
5.0
Tää oli sellainen kirja, joka sai mun lukublokin pois. Se vain veti mukaansa siihen maailmaan ja tarinaan ja oli upea. Ja sellainen, että sitä varmasti lukee eri näkökulmasta eri ihmiset ja sitä luetaan eri näkökulmista eri aikoina.
rouge_red's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
1.5
This is an instance of powering through something that just isn't subject matter I really care to read about. Understandably, the book is overall sad in tone, but it's so miserable and dour that I was massively bored through the whole thing. I probably shouldn't have finished reading this one, but since it was short I...did it.
The two perspectives were indistinct, so that unless someone's name popped up, you never knew when the POV changed until you read into each section. So you always had to reorient yourself each time.
Again, nothing quite wrong with the book, but I should dnf something like this next time...
The two perspectives were indistinct, so that unless someone's name popped up, you never knew when the POV changed until you read into each section. So you always had to reorient yourself each time.
Again, nothing quite wrong with the book, but I should dnf something like this next time...
lostinaustin's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
4.5
sophiakr's review against another edition
5.0
Blev helt golvad av denna fantastiska berättelse! Dåtid, nutid och framtid blandas på ett snyggt sätt. Stora och obehagliga teman om en dystopi beskrivs med poetiska formuleringar. Så läsvärd!
neginreads's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
nicolepants's review against another edition
4.0
Beautifully written and sad but not bleak; a vision of a future where racism takes over Sweden but doesn’t come to pass; a warning about our prejudices and an honest and balanced look at religious fundamentalism; I couldn’t put it down
myishi's review against another edition
3.0
”Och såg hur de försvann i små vita explosioner under mig”.
Asbra.
Asbra.
eims's review against another edition
4.0
A book about life, and a bit meta.
I wavered a bit when reading. From time to time I did not really understand it, neither the story nor where it wanted to get. But the last chapters made up for all of that. I really liked the ending.
It's an interesting story about a woman who is a part of a suicide squad, and also an author who later decides to interview the woman as she is admitted into an asylum since she says she actually came from the future with a mission, a mission to stop the dystopian society Sweden has turned into.
It really makes you think about the world we live in. All the muslims that are in this book talk about a fear they all carry with them, and that they then pass on to the next generation. And that part felt very real. I can believe minorities carry that kind of fear, especially muslims as they are often nowadays called terrorists and are subjected to a lot of racism. That fear is difficult to understand, but I kind of related it to the fear women are taught to feel when moving around in the world. I'm not saying it's the same, but that is as close as I can get to understanding it.
I wavered a bit when reading. From time to time I did not really understand it, neither the story nor where it wanted to get. But the last chapters made up for all of that. I really liked the ending.
It's an interesting story about a woman who is a part of a suicide squad, and also an author who later decides to interview the woman as she is admitted into an asylum since she says she actually came from the future with a mission, a mission to stop the dystopian society Sweden has turned into.
It really makes you think about the world we live in. All the muslims that are in this book talk about a fear they all carry with them, and that they then pass on to the next generation. And that part felt very real. I can believe minorities carry that kind of fear, especially muslims as they are often nowadays called terrorists and are subjected to a lot of racism. That fear is difficult to understand, but I kind of related it to the fear women are taught to feel when moving around in the world. I'm not saying it's the same, but that is as close as I can get to understanding it.
emeliegranbom's review against another edition
4.0
”Om jag hade varit en riktig poet, som Rabia eller den blinda kvinnan ifrån Iran, hade jag aldrig behövt skriva ner alla de här händelserna, som ändå känns som lögner, för jag hade kunnat skriva en dikt som höll fram orden ett och ett och visade hur trasiga de var i min tid, hur de liknade alla andra bortkastade saker som låg överallt i Kaningården.
Ord som gamla kylskåpsdörrar och halva tegelstenar, ord som inte dög till någonting, ord som innanmätet ur bilar och tvättmaskiner. Buckliga, rostiga ord, ord som räfflade slangar och trasiga kläder och mattor, ord som du inte ens ville röra vid utan handskar.”
Ord som gamla kylskåpsdörrar och halva tegelstenar, ord som inte dög till någonting, ord som innanmätet ur bilar och tvättmaskiner. Buckliga, rostiga ord, ord som räfflade slangar och trasiga kläder och mattor, ord som du inte ens ville röra vid utan handskar.”