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Between long stretches of nothingness come scenes that are full of brutality but almost never tension — the deaths are video-game quick, and just as untheatrical, even in the battle royale that brings the action to a close.
The older end of this clutch of novels (roughly, for 8-12) is often as thought-provoking as any written for older readers; full of brutality, complex relationships, revenge and irremediable injustice.
Spanning Yugoslavia's turbulent twentieth century, and full of brutality and trauma, the novel amounts to a microcosm of the Balkan experience, in which everyday lives are punctured by history — a student falls in with Chetnik royalists, and a woman contemplates her unwanted pregnancy while watching Tito's funeral.
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We learn of a harsh and strained world full of precise, practiced brutality, huge numbers of unreported, sanctioned murders and merciless emotional coldness, the taking out of "targets" that seem to replicate and replace themselves like a demonic video game army.
While part-1 displayed the journey, part 2 unleashed the full frontal brutality of once proud people being reduced to cattle.
The newspapers were full of stories about police brutality, the regulated rapes and torture of women who had no home.
It was just the kind of thing you'd expect from a kid born on streets full of drug dealers and police brutality.
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Then, fate and politics begin to affect everyday existence, and the seesaw of fate swings wildly between lives full of possibility and those maimed by brutality and tragedy.
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