Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

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<p><b>A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir </b><b>of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history</b><br><br><b>*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK*<br>*WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER G. MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING 2024*</b><br><br><b>'Essential reading'</b><br>AI WEIWEI, author of <i>1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows</i><br><br><b>'Deserves to be read widely'</b><br>FINANCIAL TIMES<br><br>As 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.<br><br>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.<br><br><i>Waiting to Be Arrested at Night</i> 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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781529922752

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 132 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Vintage Publishing