- Published: 31 October 2023
- ISBN: 9781787334021
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $36.99
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night
A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
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- Published: 31 October 2023
- ISBN: 9781787334021
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $36.99
This powerful and poignant memoir is an instant classic. He lays bare the vicious genocidal persecution of the precious Uyghur people in a very personal and persuasive way
Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters
This powerful and poignant memoir is an instant classic. He lays bare the vicious genocidal persecution of the precious Uyghur people in a very personal and persuasive way
Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters
This powerful and poignant memoir is an instant classic. He lays bare the vicious genocidal persecution of the precious Uyghur people in a very personal and persuasive way
Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters
This powerful and poignant memoir is an instant classic. He lays bare the vicious genocidal persecution of the precious Uyghur people in a very personal and persuasive way
Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters
Elegiac and deeply courageous, a most powerful literary indictment of the unfettered power of the state. A remarkable book
Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
Elegiac and deeply courageous, a most powerful literary indictment of the unfettered power of the state. A remarkable book
Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
Elegiac and deeply courageous, a most powerful literary indictment of the unfettered power of the state. A remarkable book
Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
Elegiac and deeply courageous, a most powerful literary indictment of the unfettered power of the state. A remarkable book
Philippe Sands, author of East West Street
To call this merely 'a good book' is an understatement - it is essential reading
Ai Weiwei, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
To call this merely 'a good book' is an understatement - it is essential reading
Ai Weiwei, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
To call this merely 'a good book' is an understatement - it is essential reading
Ai Weiwei, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
To call this merely 'a good book' is an understatement - it is essential reading
Ai Weiwei, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
I was riveted and chastened by Tahir Hamut Izgil's memoir. Izgil's crystalline, courageous prose is a wake-up call for everyone invested in the myth - and also the possibility - of freedom
Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States of America
I was riveted and chastened by Tahir Hamut Izgil's memoir. Izgil's crystalline, courageous prose is a wake-up call for everyone invested in the myth - and also the possibility - of freedom
Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States of America
I was riveted and chastened by Tahir Hamut Izgil's memoir. Izgil's crystalline, courageous prose is a wake-up call for everyone invested in the myth - and also the possibility - of freedom
Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States of America
I was riveted and chastened by Tahir Hamut Izgil's memoir. Izgil's crystalline, courageous prose is a wake-up call for everyone invested in the myth - and also the possibility - of freedom
Tracy K. Smith, Poet Laureate of the United States of America
A terrifying, compelling read of one family's efforts to escape the jaws that were closing around them
Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China
A terrifying, compelling read of one family's efforts to escape the jaws that were closing around them
Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China
A terrifying, compelling read of one family's efforts to escape the jaws that were closing around them
Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China
A terrifying, compelling read of one family's efforts to escape the jaws that were closing around them
Ian Johnson, author of The Souls of China
Even if we can't comprehend why this tragedy is happening in Xinjiang, Tahir Hamut Izgil reminds us why it matters
Peter Hessler, author of River Town
Even if we can't comprehend why this tragedy is happening in Xinjiang, Tahir Hamut Izgil reminds us why it matters
Peter Hessler, author of River Town
Even if we can't comprehend why this tragedy is happening in Xinjiang, Tahir Hamut Izgil reminds us why it matters
Peter Hessler, author of River Town
Even if we can't comprehend why this tragedy is happening in Xinjiang, Tahir Hamut Izgil reminds us why it matters
Peter Hessler, author of River Town
An essential testimony to one of the defining crimes against humanity of the twenty-first century so far. The poet Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the few Uyghurs who escaped just in time to tell us
Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
An essential testimony to one of the defining crimes against humanity of the twenty-first century so far. The poet Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the few Uyghurs who escaped just in time to tell us
Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
An essential testimony to one of the defining crimes against humanity of the twenty-first century so far. The poet Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the few Uyghurs who escaped just in time to tell us
Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
An essential testimony to one of the defining crimes against humanity of the twenty-first century so far. The poet Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the few Uyghurs who escaped just in time to tell us
Philip Gourevitch, author of We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
An exceptionally powerful, profoundly lyrical and beautifully translated book - I urge you to read it
Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History
An exceptionally powerful, profoundly lyrical and beautifully translated book - I urge you to read it
Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History
An exceptionally powerful, profoundly lyrical and beautifully translated book - I urge you to read it
Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History
An exceptionally powerful, profoundly lyrical and beautifully translated book - I urge you to read it
Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History
A vital and urgent book about the tragedy of the Uyghur people, abandoned by the world and brutally oppressed by the Chinese government. The voice of Tahir Hamut Izgil is one that must be heard
Janine di Giovanni, author of The Morning They Came for Us
A vital and urgent book about the tragedy of the Uyghur people, abandoned by the world and brutally oppressed by the Chinese government. The voice of Tahir Hamut Izgil is one that must be heard
Janine di Giovanni, author of The Morning They Came for Us
A vital and urgent book about the tragedy of the Uyghur people, abandoned by the world and brutally oppressed by the Chinese government. The voice of Tahir Hamut Izgil is one that must be heard
Janine di Giovanni, author of The Morning They Came for Us
A vital and urgent book about the tragedy of the Uyghur people, abandoned by the world and brutally oppressed by the Chinese government. The voice of Tahir Hamut Izgil is one that must be heard
Janine di Giovanni, author of The Morning They Came for Us
A lived-in page-turner with the slow, grim boil of a Le Carré novel (no shooting, but no hope of justice either, with plenty of code words and offstage violence). Lucid and quietly terrifying
Washington Post
A lived-in page-turner with the slow, grim boil of a Le Carré novel (no shooting, but no hope of justice either, with plenty of code words and offstage violence). Lucid and quietly terrifying
Washington Post
A lived-in page-turner with the slow, grim boil of a Le Carré novel (no shooting, but no hope of justice either, with plenty of code words and offstage violence). Lucid and quietly terrifying
Washington Post
A lived-in page-turner with the slow, grim boil of a Le Carré novel (no shooting, but no hope of justice either, with plenty of code words and offstage violence). Lucid and quietly terrifying
Washington Post
More than just a memoir... It is also the story of the Uyghur people and the political, social, and cultural destruction of their homeland by the Chinese state
TIME
More than just a memoir... It is also the story of the Uyghur people and the political, social, and cultural destruction of their homeland by the Chinese state
TIME
More than just a memoir... It is also the story of the Uyghur people and the political, social, and cultural destruction of their homeland by the Chinese state
TIME
More than just a memoir... It is also the story of the Uyghur people and the political, social, and cultural destruction of their homeland by the Chinese state
TIME
An outlier among books about human rights. This is in effect a psychological thriller, although the narrative unfolds like a classic horror movie as relative normalcy dissolves into a nightmare
Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy, New York Times
An outlier among books about human rights. This is in effect a psychological thriller, although the narrative unfolds like a classic horror movie as relative normalcy dissolves into a nightmare
Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy, New York Times
An outlier among books about human rights. This is in effect a psychological thriller, although the narrative unfolds like a classic horror movie as relative normalcy dissolves into a nightmare
Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy, New York Times
An outlier among books about human rights. This is in effect a psychological thriller, although the narrative unfolds like a classic horror movie as relative normalcy dissolves into a nightmare
Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy, New York Times
So much more than a thrilling account of a great escape. It is nothing less than a call to the West not to look away from one of the most terrible genocides of our times
Sunday Times
So much more than a thrilling account of a great escape. It is nothing less than a call to the West not to look away from one of the most terrible genocides of our times
Sunday Times
So much more than a thrilling account of a great escape. It is nothing less than a call to the West not to look away from one of the most terrible genocides of our times
Sunday Times
So much more than a thrilling account of a great escape. It is nothing less than a call to the West not to look away from one of the most terrible genocides of our times
Sunday Times
A heart-wrenching but beautifully written memoir
Daily Telegraph
A heart-wrenching but beautifully written memoir
Daily Telegraph
A heart-wrenching but beautifully written memoir
Daily Telegraph
A heart-wrenching but beautifully written memoir
Daily Telegraph
Izgil's memoir is a story about how to survive in, and to negotiate one's way through, a society in which repression has become routine, and the power of the state is unfettered. The book's restraint is also its strength
Guardian
Izgil's memoir is a story about how to survive in, and to negotiate one's way through, a society in which repression has become routine, and the power of the state is unfettered. The book's restraint is also its strength
Guardian
Izgil's memoir is a story about how to survive in, and to negotiate one's way through, a society in which repression has become routine, and the power of the state is unfettered. The book's restraint is also its strength
Guardian
Izgil's memoir is a story about how to survive in, and to negotiate one's way through, a society in which repression has become routine, and the power of the state is unfettered. The book's restraint is also its strength
Guardian
A compelling account of Izgil’s ultimately successful escape to the US. It is a story of mounting fear, as friends disappear one by one, and he and others take to sleeping next to a pile of warm clothes that they can hastily put on if the doorbell rings in the night
Prospect
A compelling account of Izgil’s ultimately successful escape to the US. It is a story of mounting fear, as friends disappear one by one, and he and others take to sleeping next to a pile of warm clothes that they can hastily put on if the doorbell rings in the night
Prospect
A compelling account of Izgil’s ultimately successful escape to the US. It is a story of mounting fear, as friends disappear one by one, and he and others take to sleeping next to a pile of warm clothes that they can hastily put on if the doorbell rings in the night
Prospect
A compelling account of Izgil’s ultimately successful escape to the US. It is a story of mounting fear, as friends disappear one by one, and he and others take to sleeping next to a pile of warm clothes that they can hastily put on if the doorbell rings in the night
Prospect
In the elegant, elliptical poems that appear throughout the text – translated, like the rest of the memoir, with great skill and subtlety by Joshua L. Freeman – Tahir both acknowledges and transforms the worsening political situation. Perhaps one of the most remarkable aspects of the book is its refreshing lack of political rhetoric: there are no pronouncements on the great evil of the Chinese state. Tahir lets the awful facts speak for themselves
Times Literary Supplement
In the elegant, elliptical poems that appear throughout the text – translated, like the rest of the memoir, with great skill and subtlety by Joshua L. Freeman – Tahir both acknowledges and transforms the worsening political situation. Perhaps one of the most remarkable aspects of the book is its refreshing lack of political rhetoric: there are no pronouncements on the great evil of the Chinese state. Tahir lets the awful facts speak for themselves
Times Literary Supplement
In the elegant, elliptical poems that appear throughout the text – translated, like the rest of the memoir, with great skill and subtlety by Joshua L. Freeman – Tahir both acknowledges and transforms the worsening political situation. Perhaps one of the most remarkable aspects of the book is its refreshing lack of political rhetoric: there are no pronouncements on the great evil of the Chinese state. Tahir lets the awful facts speak for themselves
Times Literary Supplement
In the elegant, elliptical poems that appear throughout the text – translated, like the rest of the memoir, with great skill and subtlety by Joshua L. Freeman – Tahir both acknowledges and transforms the worsening political situation. Perhaps one of the most remarkable aspects of the book is its refreshing lack of political rhetoric: there are no pronouncements on the great evil of the Chinese state. Tahir lets the awful facts speak for themselves
Times Literary Supplement
Deserves to be read and listened to widely... This is a beautiful read. Izgil’s poetic gaze, and the elegant translation by Joshua L Freeman, together produce a compact, compelling prose that pushes you to keep reading on, even as you blink back tears
Financial Times
Deserves to be read and listened to widely... This is a beautiful read. Izgil’s poetic gaze, and the elegant translation by Joshua L Freeman, together produce a compact, compelling prose that pushes you to keep reading on, even as you blink back tears
Financial Times
Deserves to be read and listened to widely... This is a beautiful read. Izgil’s poetic gaze, and the elegant translation by Joshua L Freeman, together produce a compact, compelling prose that pushes you to keep reading on, even as you blink back tears
Financial Times
Deserves to be read and listened to widely... This is a beautiful read. Izgil’s poetic gaze, and the elegant translation by Joshua L Freeman, together produce a compact, compelling prose that pushes you to keep reading on, even as you blink back tears
Financial Times
An urgent tale of survival and subversion
Economist, *Books of the Year*
An urgent tale of survival and subversion
Economist, *Books of the Year*