Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide by Tahir Hamut Izgil, Review by Daniele-Hadi Irandoost & Rev. David William Parry

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocide. Tahir Hamut Izgil Translated by Joshua L. Freeman. London: Jonathan Cape. 252 pp. Hardback £15.34.ISBN: 978-1787334014. “Sometimes I find myself thinking, perhaps it’s better to be a cow than to be a Uyghur” (69), Tahir Hamut Izgils remembers the words of his