Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

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<b><b>Winner of the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing<br><br>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the year</b><br><br>Named one of the best books of the year by: <i>THE NEW YORK TIMES</i> • <i>THE WASHINGTON POST</i> • <i>THE ECONOMIST</i> • <i>TIME</i><br><br>A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide<br><br>One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an all-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China’s internment camps for Muslim minorities.<br><br>Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to persecution. After he attempted to travel abroad in 1996, police tortured him until he confessed to fabricated charges and sent him to a re-education through labor camp. But even having endured three years in the camp, he could never have predicted the Chinese government’s radical solution to the Uyghur question two decades later. Was the first sign when Tahir was interrogated for hours after a phone call with a fellow poet in the Netherlands? Or when his old friend was sentenced to life in prison simply for calling for Uyghurs' legal rights to be enforced? Perhaps it was when the police seized Uyghurs’ radios and installed jamming equipment to cut them off from the outside world.<br><br>Once Tahir noticed that the park near his home was nearly empty because so many neighbors had been arrested, he knew the police would be coming for him any day. One night, after Tahir’s daughters were asleep, he placed by his door a sturdy pair of shoes, a sweater, an

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EAN

9780593491799

Sprache

Englisch

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Buch

Maße

214 x 147 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Penguin LLC US