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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide
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A Uyghur poet’s piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history’Essential reading’AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows’Deserves to be read widely’FINANCIAL TIMESAs his friends disappeared one by one, it became clear to Tahir Hamut Izgil that fleeing his home in Xinjiang was his family’s only hope.In this unforgettable story of courage and survival, Tahir charts the Chinese government’s ongoing destruction of the Uyghur community and way of life in spare, gripping, finely tuned prose.Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is an urgent call for the world to awaken to a humanitarian catastrophe, and a moving tribute to those Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.196 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 272 |
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| Year Published | 2024-8-1 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 1529922755 |
An urgent tale of survival and subversion |
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| Other text | Deserves to be read and listened to widely… This is a beautiful read. Izgil’s poetic gaze, and the elegant translation by Joshua L Freeman, together produce a compact, compelling prose that pushes you to keep reading on, even as you blink back tears |
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