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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night - Tahir Hamut Izgil

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2024
Vintage (Verlag)
978-1-5299-2275-2 (ISBN)
CHF 19,15 inkl. MwSt
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 TIMES

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.

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.

Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the foremost poets writing in the Uyghur language. He grew up in Kashgar, an ancient city in the southwest of the Uyghur homeland. After attending college in Beijing, he returned to the Uyghur region and emerged as a prominent film director. His poetry has appeared, in Joshua L. Freeman's English translation, in the New York Review of Books, Asymptote, Gulf Coast and elsewhere, and has also been extensively translated into Chinese, Japanese, French and Turkish. He lives near Washington, D.C. Joshua L. Freeman is a historian of twentieth-century China and a translator of Uyghur poetry. His writing and translations have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. He is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, in Taiwan. Joshua L. Freeman is a historian of twentieth-century China and a translator of Uyghur poetry. His writing and translations have appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. He is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, in Taiwan.

Erscheinungsdatum
Einführung Joshua L. Freeman
Übersetzer Joshua L. Freeman
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 197 mm
Gewicht 196 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-5299-2275-5 / 1529922755
ISBN-13 978-1-5299-2275-2 / 9781529922752
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