{"product_id":"waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-tahir-hamut-izgil","title":"Waiting to Be Arrested at Night (Tahir Hamut Izgil)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Uyghur poet's piercing memoir \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eof life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK*\u003cbr\u003e*WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER G. MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING 2024*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Essential reading'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAI WEIWEI, author of \u003ci\u003e1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Deserves to be read widely'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWaiting to Be Arrested at Night\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTahir Hamut Izgil\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere, and has also been extensively translated into Chinese, Japanese, French and Turkish. He lives near Washington, D.C.\n\u003cb\u003eJoshua L. Freeman\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian of twentieth-century China and a translator of Uyghur poetry. His writing and translations have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, in Taiwan.\n\u003cb\u003eJoshua L. Freeman\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian of twentieth-century China and a translator of Uyghur poetry. His writing and translations have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. He is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, in Taiwan.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 272 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65838742045021,"sku":"K097572046","price":11.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9757204600001A.jpg?v=1788759613","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/waiting-to-be-arrested-at-night-tahir-hamut-izgil","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}