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A powerful and urgent memoir of loss, exile and hope by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja

''This gripping memoir conveys the courage and cost of telling a truer story'' Guardian Book of the Day

''Revelatory ... The particulars of her story speak for the losses of a people'' Sunday Telegraph

''Essential reading'' Financial Times

In February 2018, twenty-four members of Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja''s family were arrested by the Chinese state as a direct retaliation for her investigations into Chinese oppression of the Uyghur people.

Hoja grew up with her people''s culture and history running through her veins. As a young woman, she became a star presenter on Chinese state television, but then she began to understand what China was doing to her people, as well as her own complicity as a journalist. When her rising fame and growing political awakening coincided, she made it her mission, despite

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      Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
      Publication Date: 01/07/2024
      ISBN13: 9780349015989, 978-0349015989
      ISBN10: 349015988
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A powerful and urgent memoir of loss, exile and hope by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja

      ''This gripping memoir conveys the courage and cost of telling a truer story'' Guardian Book of the Day

      ''Revelatory ... The particulars of her story speak for the losses of a people'' Sunday Telegraph

      ''Essential reading'' Financial Times

      In February 2018, twenty-four members of Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja''s family were arrested by the Chinese state as a direct retaliation for her investigations into Chinese oppression of the Uyghur people.

      Hoja grew up with her people''s culture and history running through her veins. As a young woman, she became a star presenter on Chinese state television, but then she began to understand what China was doing to her people, as well as her own complicity as a journalist. When her rising fame and growing political awakening coincided, she made it her mission, despite

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