The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang Tursun Perhat
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang Tursun Perhat The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. Seeking to escape the…
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The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang Tursun Perhat
The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary job in a government office.
His evocative prose recalls a vast array of canonical world writers--contemporary Chinese authors such as Mo Yan; the modernist images and rhythms of Camus, Dostoevsky, and Kafka; the serious yet absurdist dissection of the logic of racism in Ellison's Invisible Man--while drawing He wanders the streets, accompanied by the bitter fog of winter pollution, reciting a monologue of numbers and odors, lust and loathing, memories and madness.Perhat Tursun's novel is a work of untrammeled literary creativity.
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