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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night Tahir Hamut Izgil

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night By Tahir Hamut Izgil

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night by Tahir Hamut Izgil

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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil

A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history

'Essential reading' AI WEIWEI
'Deeply courageous' PHILIPPE SANDS
'Exceptionally powerful' JULIA LOVELL

If you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of only a handful from his minority Muslim community to escape the genocide being visited upon his homeland in western China.

A successful filmmaker, innovative poet and prominent intellectual, Tahir Hamut Izgil had long been acquainted with state surveillance and violence, having spent three years in a labour camp on fabricated charges.

But in 2017, the Chinese government's repression of its Uyghur citizens assumed a terrifying new intensity: critics were silenced; conversations became hushed; passports were confiscated; and Uyghurs were forced to provide DNA samples and biometric data.

As Izgil's friends disappeared one by one, it became clear that fleeing the country was his family's only hope.

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night charts the ongoing destruction of a community and a way of life. It is a call for the world to awaken to a humanitarian catastrophe, an unforgettable story of courage, escape and survival, and a moving tribute to Izgil's friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced.

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night Reviews

To call this merely 'a good book' is an understatement - it is essential reading -- AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
An exceptionally powerful, profoundly lyrical and beautifully translated book - I urge you to read it -- JULIA LOVELL, author of Maoism: A Global History
Elegiac and deeply courageous, a most powerful literary indictment of the unfettered power of the state. A remarkable book -- PHILIPPE SANDS, author of East West Street
A vital and urgent book about the tragedy of the Uyghur people, abandoned by the world and brutally oppressed by the Chinese government. The voice of Tahir Hamut Izgil is one that must be heard -- JANINE DI GIOVANNI, author of The Morning They Came for Us
Even if we can't comprehend why this tragedy is happening in Xinjiang, Tahir Hamut Izgil reminds us why it matters -- PETER HESSLER, author of River Town
A terrifying, compelling read of one family's efforts to escape the jaws that were closing around them -- IAN JOHNSON, author of The Souls of China
I was riveted and chastened by Tahir Hamut Izgil's memoir. Izgil's crystalline, courageous prose is a wake-up call for everyone invested in the myth - and also the possibility - of freedom -- TRACY K. SMITH, Poet Laureate of the United States
Tahir Hamut Izgil's powerful and poignant memoir is an instant classic. He lays bare the vicious genocidal persecution of the precious Uyghur people in a very personal and persuasive way -- CORNEL WEST, author of Democracy Matters
An essential testimony to one of the defining crimes against humanity of the twenty-first century so far. The poet Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the few Uyghurs who escaped just in time to tell us -- PHILIP GOUREVITCH, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

About Tahir Hamut Izgil

Tahir Hamut Izgil (Author)
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, Japense, French and Turkish. He lives near Washington, D.C.

Joshua L. Freeman (Translator)
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.

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GOR013366385
9781787334014
1787334015
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil
Tahir Hamut Izgil
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Vintage Publishing
2023-08-03
272
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