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

challenging emotional informative tense

5.0

I stepped into this book knowing nothing about the ongoing Uyghur oppression in China. Having read this book, I can think of nothing else. This is not a happy story and it does not have a happy ending. I find myself thinking of all the people who did not escape China, the people in those "study" camps and labor camps. The people left behind to wonder where their lives ones are, if they are alive, if they will ever come home. This is such an intimate and moving read. I'm glad it included some of his poetry, too! I hope to one day be able to read an English-language translation of his poems.
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