Waiting to be arrested at night : a Uyghur poet's memoir of China's genocide
by Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969- (Author)
Summary
"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 years, but in 2017 it assumed a te... Full description
- 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.