My Friends - Fredrik Backman
Found Family, Reflective, Surprisingly Funny, Childhood Trauma
Teenagers battling poverty, grief, abuse and trauma through their bond and Art. Told by an axiety riddled middle man to an orphan girl he can't get rid of.
"Because in an ugly place, he was born with so much beauty inside him that it was like an act of rebellion."
Human Acts - Han Kang
Civil Unrest, Resistance, fictionalized real-events, dictatorship
Interconnected stories about people who suffered through the event of the 1980 Gwangju massacre, and the consequences it had on a nation and its people.
"There is no way back to the world before the torture. No way back to the world before the massacre."
"There are no souls here. There are only silenced corpses."
"Why cover the coffin with the Taegukgi? As though it wasn't the nation itself that had murdered them."
Le Silence de la Mer - Vercors
WWII, Vichy Regime, War away from the frontlines, French Resistance, Denunciation
(eng : The Silence of the Sea) Collection of short stories about Nazi occupied France during WWII. Written and illegally distributed during the occupation.
from cohabitation with german soldiers, blind faith in an idolized nation, the weight of knowing, and Resisting the Vichy regime.
