{"product_id":"9781787334014","title":"Waiting to Be Arrested at Night : A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide -- Hardback (English Language Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e***LITHUB'S #1 BEST-REVIEWED NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***\n\u003cbr\u003e**A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**\n\u003cbr\u003e**AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**\n\u003cbr\u003e*WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE'S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Essential reading' AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Deserves to be read widely... Beautiful' FINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of only a handful from his minority Muslim community to escape the genocide being visited upon his homeland in western China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA successful filmmaker, innovative poet and prominent intellectual, Tahir Hamut Izgil had long been acquainted with state surveillance and violence, having spent three years in a labour camp on fabricated charges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut in 2017, the Chinese government's repression of its Uyghur citizens assumed a terrifying new intensity: critics were silenced; conversations became hushed; passports were confiscated; and Uyghurs were forced to provide DNA samples and biometric data.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs Izgil's friends disappeared one by one, it became clear that fleeing the country was his family's only hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEscape to America spared Izgil's family the internment camps that have swallowed over a million Uyghurs. It also allowed this rare personal testimony of the Xinjiang genocide to reach the wider world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWaiting to Be Arrested at Night charts the ongoing destruction of a community and a way of life. It is a call for the world to awaken to a humanitarian catastrophe, an unforgettable story of courage, escape and survival, and a moving tribute to Izgil's friends and fellow Uyghurs whose voices have been silenced.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42801144823883,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":966.86,"currency_code":"THB","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0641\/0023\/7387\/files\/9781787334014-1.jpg?v=1783473972","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.co.th\/products\/9781787334014","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Thailand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}