Niklas reviewed Rape: a love story by Joyce Carol Oates
Review of 'Rape' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
While this shouldn't be on the fiction shelf, it is. Oates has written a very real work, where a raped person is subjected not only to the after effects of the rape itself, but those of the public, the offenders and the court system.
The protagonist is a person, a human being, and a victim. Her child, witness to the rape, also plays a strong part.
To me, Oates has put the finger on a lot of what's rotten in most legal systems on this planet when it comes to how the victim is treated. And of how time passes, and what is thought of and done regarding a rape.
All in all: angry, angry and real. Should be compulsory reading for most people.