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

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

Tahir Hamut Izgil with Joshua Lee Freeman (Translator)

271 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction autobiography memoir race religion informative sad tense medium-paced

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A 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 ha...

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Moods

tense 71%
informative 64%
sad 64%
emotional 57%
reflective 57%
dark 50%
challenging 35%
adventurous 7%
inspiring 7%

Pace

medium 85%
slow 7%
fast 7%

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