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The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang

The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang Paperback - 2022

by Tursun, Perhat

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  • Title The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang
  • Author Tursun, Perhat
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Date 2022-09-13
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013056958
  • ISBN 9780231202916 / 0231202911
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.43 x 5.43 x 0.47 in (21.41 x 13.79 x 1.19 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
  • Library of Congress subjects China - Social life and customs, Poverty - China
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021059846
  • Dewey Decimal Code 894.323

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  • Foreword, 08/27/2022, Page 0

About the author

Perhat Tursun is a leading Uyghur writer, poet, and social critic from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. He has published many short stories and poems as well as three novels, including the controversial 1999 novel The Art of Suicide, decried as anti-Islamic. In 2018, he was detained by the Chinese authorities and was reportedly given a sixteen-year prison sentence.

Darren Byler is assistant professor of international studies at Simon Fraser University and author of In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony (2021). His anonymous cotranslator, who disappeared in 2017, is presumed to be in the reeducation camp system in northwest China.