2023 NYT Notable Books - Nonfiction

 

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1. Waiting to be arrested at night: a Uyghur poet's memoir of China's genocide

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Izgil, Tahir Hamut, 1969-
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"A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a family's escape from genocide One by one, Tahir Hamut Izgil's friends disappeared. The Chinese government's brutal persecution of the Uyghur people had continued for years, but in 2017 it assumed a terrifying new scale. The Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group in western China, were experiencing an echo of the worst horrors of the twentieth...