Waiting to Be Arrested at Night A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Tahir Hamut Izgil, Joshua L. Freeman, Greg Watanabe

eAudio - 2023

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, awarded to the best first book of the yearNamed one of the best books of the year by: THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • THE ECONOMIST • TIMEA poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocideOne by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth century, amplified by China's establishment of an al...l-seeing high-tech surveillance state. Over a million people have vanished into China’s internment camps for Muslim minorities.Tahir, a prominent poet and intellectual, had been no stranger to... more