WAITING TO BE ARRESTED AT NIGHT

A Uyghur poet s piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history Essential reading AI WEIWEI author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows Deserves to be read widely FINANCIAL TIMESAs his friends disappeared one by one it became clear to Tahir Hamut Izgil that fleeing his home in Xinjiang was his family s only hope In this unforgettable story of courage and survival Tahir charts the Chinese government s ongoing destruction of the Uyghur community and way of life in spare gripping finely tuned prose Waiting to Be Arrested at Night is an urgent call for the world to awaken to a humanitarian catastrophe and a moving tribute to those Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced