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A review by alomie
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This book is extremely sad, it's a fictionalised novel about the life of a real woman who. Survived Auschwitz as a young woman, but while there is raped and works for the Nazi's to keep herself alive, and then once liberated is sentenced to 10 years in a Russian Gulag for "sleeping with the enemy".
It was tough to get through and I had to stop and come back several times, it's hardly believable.
It was tough to get through and I had to stop and come back several times, it's hardly believable.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Trafficking, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Death of parent