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The End Of Manners - Perempuan-Perempuan Tak Berwajah (2014)

by Francesca Marciano(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Gramedia Pustaka Utama

review 1: Tried so hard to finish reading this book. Unlike the little train that could i finally stopped two thirds of the way up. I was frustrated by the idea of so many people putting their lives at risk to take pictures of young women who would rather commit suicide than marry men much older than themselves in Afghanistan. Furthermore females having their pictures taken dishonors them according to their culture. Somehow the whole idea just frustrated me too much. And so I admit I am a quitter....but now i can rummage through my books to read and have fun with the next one.
review 2: Maria Gallante was a photojournalist; she had a nervous breakdown and now photographs food-porn for a living. One day, her agent calls her; he wants her back in journalism, and he wants h... moreer to go to Kabul to photograph young women who have chosen self-immolation over arranged marriage. She does. Moral dilemmas abound. I don't know how I feel about this novel: Is it a half-hearted attempt or just too reserved? The scenery could use a little fleshing out, but then, the inability to do just that is sort of the point. Characters could be developed better, but to do that, you would have to know them well, and the point seems to be that you can never know them well enough. Reading this novel was not what I would call an 'enjoyable' experience, but novels that force us into examinations of conscience rarely are. I can't stop thinking about it, and I feel compelled to put it back in the 'to read' pile. This novel has left me with a lot of questions; questions like: what do I want from a novel? What do I want from the news that I read? Have I started treating novels and news like products to be consumed instead of sources of artistic and factual enlightenment? When did that happen and how do I stop? Recommended. less

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