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

challenging emotional informative sad slow-paced

5.0

" In this life, perhaps it is my fate to leave those closest to me with no goodbyes."

this book gives a raw insight into the silenced genocide that has been happening in china and the insidious ways a culture and a people are being removed through means of stifling their way of life in the country. the author of this book is a poet, and by being a poet is a recorder of not just his culture's history but the stories of his friends in the literary world, and his familial neighbours too. the majority of the book outlines the harsh and dystopian treatment of uyghurs that is told so matter-of-factly despite its brutality. towards the end i really got swept into the author's bid for freedom that comes both with relief but also heartbreak from those he has left behind. one of those deeply necessary books to understand the world today and the people that still fight for justice.