Vendrán a Detenerme a Media Noche - by Izgil Tahir Hamut (Paperback)

About the Book

A moving testimony about the brutal persecution experienced by the Uyghur community in China and the flight of the author and his family from the country. The persecution of the Uyghur people by the Chinese Government has reached a terrifying dimension since 2017. Controlled by a highly sophisticated surveillance system, the Uighurs, a predominantly Muslim and Turkic-speaking ethnic group that mostly lives in the Xinjiang region of northwest China, are reliving some of the worst moments of the 20th century.Tahir Hamut Izgil, a prominent Uyghur poet and filmmaker, has also been a victim of this repression. After an attempt to travel abroad in 1996, he was detained, tortured and imprisoned for three years in a re-education camp. Two decades later, the transfer of people to internment camps under any pretext became so common that Izgil and his wife understood that his only hope was to flee the country.

About the Author

Es cineasta y uno de los más destacados poetas en lengua uigur. Se crio en Kashgar, estudió en la Universidad de Pekín y trabajó como director de cine en la Región Autónoma Uigur de Xinjiang. Ha publicado varios de sus poemas en The Atlantic y The New York Review of Books, entre otros medios. Vive cerca de Washington D.C.