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Waiting to be arrested at night a Uyghur poet's memoir of China's genocide

"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. One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for year...

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Main Author: Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969- (Author)
Other Authors: Freeman, Joshua L. (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Uighur
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Izgil, Tahir Hamut, > 1969-
Uighur (Turkic people) > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu > Biography.
Political activists > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu > Biography.
Genocide > China > Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) > Ethnic relations.
Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu (China) > Social conditions.
Autobiographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the interrogation
  • A phone call from Beijing
  • My hubris
  • The women's prison
  • Uninvited guests
  • Eli the bookseller
  • The red armband
  • Unity road
  • Through a car window
  • The key
  • The police station basement
  • Your unknown place
  • Passports
  • Rejection
  • The far shore
  • Lost in Paris
  • White slips and blue slips
  • Into the storm
  • Waiting to be arrested at night
  • The door closes
  • Body
  • The apartment
  • There are no goodbyes
  • A one-way journey
  • Epilogue : exile dreams
  • What is it.

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