A review by irina_sky
I Spit on Your Graves by Vernon Sullivan, Boris Vian

4.0

I ordered this book on the net a few weeks ago. It is pretty extraordinary. It's called " I Spit on Your Graves" by Boris Vian. I've read a dozen of extremely negative feedbacks on this novel but decided to check it out for myself, just for the hell of it. I Spit on Your Graves is an extremely violent hard-boiled novel about racial and class prejudice, revenge, justice, and is itself a literary oddity due to the fact that it was written by a jazz-loving white Frenchman, who had never been to America.
It's probably one of the blackest books I've read so far. The plot teems with murders, rapes, racism. You may find it revolting or even start hating it for all the dirty stuff being done there but on the whole it's a rather peculiar read.