Perhat Tursun
Autore di The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang
Opere di Perhat Tursun
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- پەرھات تۇرسۇن
- Data di nascita
- 1969-01
- Sesso
- male
- Nazione (per mappa)
- China
- Luogo di nascita
- Atush, Xinjiang, China
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- PEN Tucholsky Prize (2022)
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The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang di Perhat Tursun
Unremittingly bleak and painful, but also such a beautiful testament to alienation and philosophy of identity. I feel grateful that we have access to this work.
Read the intro (14%) and the next 18% (to 32%). Really wanted to like this, as I think the topic of the horrific prejudice it outlines is so important. However, this one's just not for me. A bit too gritty. But deeply atmospheric, for sure.
In The Backstreets we follow an unnamed Uyghur narrator through one night on the streets of Ürümchi. The narrator is made a stranger in his own land by the Han Chinese minority who control the region and we are witnesses to a thousand indignities driving him into madness.
This is an important work that gives insight into the Uyghur people and their situation under the rule of the People's Republic of China, but it didn't really click with me due to the stream of consciousness writing. Despite my dislike for the style, I am glad I read it and do recommend it.
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This is an important work that gives insight into the Uyghur people and their situation under the rule of the People's Republic of China, but it didn't really click with me due to the stream of consciousness writing. Despite my dislike for the style, I am glad I read it and do recommend it.
Received via NetGalley.… (altro)
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 3.4
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 5
- Lingue
- 1