A Uyghur poets piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in historyLITHUBS #1 BESTREVIEWED NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLES JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOKEssential reading AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and SorrowsDeserves to be read widely... Beautiful FINANCIAL TIMESIf you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, theres 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 governments 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 Izgils friends disappeared one by one, it became clear that fleeing the country was his familys only hope.Escape to America spared Izgils family the internment camps that have swallowed over a million Uyghurs. It also allowed this rare personal testimony of the Xinjiang genocide to reach the wider world.Waiting to Be Arrested at Night charts...

Binding: Hardback;272 pages; Publisher: Vintage Publishing; Classification: BM; Weight: 502 g; Dimensions: 223 x 147 x 31

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