Tursun, Perhat
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang
- ISBN 13:
- 9780231202916
- author:
- Tursun, Perhat
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 168
- Dimensions:
- 21.4 x 13.8 x 1.2 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun In this powerful and evocative novel, Perhat Tursun recounts the story of an unnamed Uyghur man who finds himself lost in the impenetrable streets of a Chinese city. Seeking escape from poverty and pain, he is met with cold stares and rejection, leaving him to wander the streets alone. Tursun's prose is a masterful blend of influences, drawing on canonical world writers such as Camus, Dostoevsky, and Kafka, while also deeply rooted in Uyghur literary traditions and Sufi poetics. The result is a stark fable about urban isolation and social violence, yet one that also reveals the profound forms of resilience offered by memory and imagination. A translator's introduction provides context for the novel, situating it within the complex political atmosphere that led to Tursun's disappearance and the suppression of his work.
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