Tahir Hamut Izgil Waiting to Be Arrested at Night : A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of

A Uyghur poets piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in historyWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLES JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOKWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER G. MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING 2024Essential readingAI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and SorrowsDeserves to be read widelyFINANCIAL TIMESAs his friends disappeared one by one, it became clear to Tahir Hamut Izgil that fleeing his home in Xinjiang was his familys only hope. In this unforgettable story of courage and survival, Tahir charts the Chinese governments ongoing destruction of the Uyghur community and way of life in spare, gripping, finely tuned prose. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night 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. | Tahir Hamut Izgil Waiting to Be Arrested at Night : A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of