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A review by benrogerswpg
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun
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This was an interesting story.
I found it very reminiscent of the writing of [a:Kōbō Abe|6526|Kōbō Abe|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1652258871p2/6526.jpg].
Artistic, poetic, and imaginative - but coated in paranoia with social-outcast undertones.
[a:Darren Byler|20140721|Darren Byler|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] was a great translator, and I am so glad to have read this book from its' original language.
I also highly recommend his books too
[b:Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City|57047985|Terror Capitalism Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City|Darren Byler|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1652308989l/57047985._SY75_.jpg|89270662]
and
[b:In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony|59880482|In the Camps China's High-Tech Penal Colony|Darren Byler|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1648421389l/59880482._SX50_.jpg|91588660]
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3.8/5
This was an interesting story.
I found it very reminiscent of the writing of [a:Kōbō Abe|6526|Kōbō Abe|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1652258871p2/6526.jpg].
Artistic, poetic, and imaginative - but coated in paranoia with social-outcast undertones.
[a:Darren Byler|20140721|Darren Byler|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] was a great translator, and I am so glad to have read this book from its' original language.
I also highly recommend his books too
[b:Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City|57047985|Terror Capitalism Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City|Darren Byler|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1652308989l/57047985._SY75_.jpg|89270662]
and
[b:In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony|59880482|In the Camps China's High-Tech Penal Colony|Darren Byler|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1648421389l/59880482._SX50_.jpg|91588660]
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3.8/5