Smashbomb

"This tender memoir follows Potts’ life-swap from criminal barrister to patisserie chef in the wake of her mother’s death. It’s filled with the comfort we all seek when dealing with grief."

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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) created a video about Russian Doll in TV

Feb 4, 2019

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Russian Doll: Season 1 | Official Trailer #2 [HD] | Netflix

Life, death, and every affirmation in between. Charlie Barnett joins Natasha Lyonne in Russian Doll from Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland.

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Bad Blood

7.0 (7 Ratings) Rate It

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A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The White Book in Books

Jan 3, 2018

The White Book

Han Kang | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

9.0

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The fragility of life

This is a heartbreaking, autobiographical account surrounding the death of the author's newborn sister, and the subsequent grieving process she goes through, seeing 'white' throughout her life.

Unlike @The Vegetarian: A Novel and @Human Acts, this book is not designed to have the narrative reach of those two novels. Instead, it is a fragmented meditation on the death of the unnamed baby sister, who died two hours after her birth. Han wisely gives as much value to those heightened two hours of life as she does to her death. The story of her birth, as narrated from the point of view of the mother, who is 22 when she is obliged to deliver the premature baby herself, is simply told.

The book is structured around the white things that become part of the rituals of mourning and remembering. The dominant theme is of transience, of fleeting life and the acceptance of human fragility. It feels mysterious and abstract at time, which seems to reflect the death itself. Hats off to Han Kang and @Deborah Smith for another wonderful translation.