The White Mosque: A Memoir Samatar Sofia
Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award)Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardA historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students,…
Specifikacia The White Mosque: A Memoir Samatar Sofia
Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award)Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardA historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identityIn the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return.Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva. Named Ak Metchet, "The White Mosque," after the Mennonites' whitewashed
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