Youssra {very busy-review slumping}’s review of She Who Remains > Likes and Comments
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happy you loved angel! 👼🏼💓
Can't imagine people living in these conditions. Makes me grateful being born in our time...Amazing review👏
Thank you for this review, adding this to my TBR now.
Alexia wrote: "Thank you for this review, adding this to my TBR now."
ahhhh hope you like it😭
Katerina wrote: "Can't imagine people living in these conditions. Makes me grateful being born in our time...Amazing review👏"
truly it is horrifying💔
Grace wrote: "okay wow"
💔💔
lena ♱ wrote: "happy you loved angel! 👼🏼💓"
thnx lovely <3
Laura Jane ♡ (catching up) wrote: "damn 😭"
😭😭
yeah i’m very privileged. it hits all the more reading someone having to go through something like this :(
bookluvr wrote: "yeah i’m very privileged. it hits all the more reading someone having to go through something like this :("
truly exactly how I felt.. getting this lense into other people's lives makes you appreciate what you do have :(
Omg glad you enjoyed the read 🤩
Definitely adding this! These types of books are so eye opening and devastating 😭
Amazing review! So glad you enjoyed it!!🖤💗
V.D. wrote: "Amazing review! So glad you enjoyed it!!🖤💗"
thank you sm!!
Isabelle wrote: "Definitely adding this! These types of books are so eye opening and devastating 😭"
it truly was :/ it did have almost a happy ending though!
Dahlia wrote: "Adding this to my tbr "
haha yayy
Nancy •͙͙✧⃝•͙͙✩ͯ wrote: "Omg glad you enjoyed the read 🤩"
thank you love <3
As an Albanian, I am honestly appalled by this interpretation. I was recommended this book by a bookstore owner who mistakenly thought the author was Albanian, like myself. I read it, and I was left angry and deeply disappointed.
The Kanun and the tradition of the burrnesha are part of a complex Albanian history. To reduce our culture to blood feuds, women being traded for cattle and supposedly primitive customs is such a disservice to my people. And the burrnesha tradition is not simply a story about being queer. It is about family honour, land, inheritance, patriarchy and the sacrifices women made for their families.
What makes this even more appalling is that the Bulgarian author has never even visited Albania. How can you claim to portray a people's lived reality without ever setting foot in their homeland? I am a new author myself, and I find it deeply disheartening that a small, historically marginalised nation like Albania is portrayed this way while the world celebrates the book.
Our history is not an exotic backdrop for outsiders to reinterpret. Our stories deserve to be told with understanding, respect and cultural accuracy. I am genuinely appalled by the acclaim this book has received. I truly hope that you are not basing your information on Albanians based on this very unfortunate book :)
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Can't imagine people living in these conditions. Makes me grateful being born in our time...Amazing review👏
Thank you for this review, adding this to my TBR now.
Alexia wrote: "Thank you for this review, adding this to my TBR now."ahhhh hope you like it😭
Katerina wrote: "Can't imagine people living in these conditions. Makes me grateful being born in our time...Amazing review👏"truly it is horrifying💔
Grace wrote: "okay wow"💔💔
lena ♱ wrote: "happy you loved angel! 👼🏼💓"thnx lovely <3
Laura Jane ♡ (catching up) wrote: "damn 😭"😭😭
yeah i’m very privileged. it hits all the more reading someone having to go through something like this :(
bookluvr wrote: "yeah i’m very privileged. it hits all the more reading someone having to go through something like this :("truly exactly how I felt.. getting this lense into other people's lives makes you appreciate what you do have :(
Omg glad you enjoyed the read 🤩
Definitely adding this! These types of books are so eye opening and devastating 😭
Amazing review! So glad you enjoyed it!!🖤💗
V.D. wrote: "Amazing review! So glad you enjoyed it!!🖤💗"thank you sm!!
Isabelle wrote: "Definitely adding this! These types of books are so eye opening and devastating 😭"it truly was :/ it did have almost a happy ending though!
Dahlia wrote: "Adding this to my tbr "haha yayy
Nancy •͙͙✧⃝•͙͙✩ͯ wrote: "Omg glad you enjoyed the read 🤩"thank you love <3
As an Albanian, I am honestly appalled by this interpretation. I was recommended this book by a bookstore owner who mistakenly thought the author was Albanian, like myself. I read it, and I was left angry and deeply disappointed.The Kanun and the tradition of the burrnesha are part of a complex Albanian history. To reduce our culture to blood feuds, women being traded for cattle and supposedly primitive customs is such a disservice to my people. And the burrnesha tradition is not simply a story about being queer. It is about family honour, land, inheritance, patriarchy and the sacrifices women made for their families.
What makes this even more appalling is that the Bulgarian author has never even visited Albania. How can you claim to portray a people's lived reality without ever setting foot in their homeland? I am a new author myself, and I find it deeply disheartening that a small, historically marginalised nation like Albania is portrayed this way while the world celebrates the book.
Our history is not an exotic backdrop for outsiders to reinterpret. Our stories deserve to be told with understanding, respect and cultural accuracy. I am genuinely appalled by the acclaim this book has received. I truly hope that you are not basing your information on Albanians based on this very unfortunate book :)