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'An indispensable account' - Sunday Times 'Moving and devastating'
- The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' -
Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars) FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA'A
'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN Since 2017, one million
Uyghurs have been seized by the Chinese authorities and sent to
're-education' camps, in what the US Government and human rights
groups describe as a genocide. Few have made it out to the West.
One is Gulbahar Haitiwaji. For three years, she endured hundreds of
hours of interrogations, freezing cold, forced sterilisation, and a
programme of de-personalisation meant to destroy her free will and
her memories. This intimate account reveals the long-suppressed
truth about China's gulag. It tells the story of a woman confronted
by an all-powerful state bent on crushing her spirit - and her
battle for freedom and dignity. Extract 'In the camps, the
're-education' process applies the same remorseless method to
destroying all its victims. It starts out by stripping you of your
individuality. It takes away your name, your clothes, your hair.
There is nothing now to distinguish you from anyone else. 'Then the
process takes over your body by subjecting it to a hellish routine:
being forced to repeatedly recite the glories of the Communist
Party for eleven hours a day in a windowless classroom. Falter, and
you are punished. So you keep on saying the same things over and
over again until you can't feel, can't think anymore. You lose all
sense of time. First the hours, then the days.' - Gulbahar
Haitiwaji Reviews 'Gulbahar's memoir is an indispensable account,
which makes vivid the stench of fearful sweat in the cells, the
newly built prison's permanent reek of white pain. It closely
corresponds with other witness statements, giving every indication
of being very reliable. Most impressive is her psychological
honesty.' - John Phipps, Sunday Times 'Huge efforts have been made
to obfuscate the realities of life in the camps (even speaking
openly in Xinjiang about them can lead to incarceration). Although
their existence has been well documented abroad and grudgingly
admitted by the Chinese state, relatively few first-hand accounts
of what actually goes on inside them have emerged. One is Gulbahar
Haitiwaji's moving and devastating How I Survived a Chinese
'Re-education' Camp.' - Roderic Wye, Literary Review 'There follows
an intimate, highly sensory self-portrait, created with the help of
Rozenn Morgat (a journalist with Le Figaro), of an educated woman
passing through a system that appears at turns cruel, paranoid,
capricious and devastatingly effective. It begins with the
confiscation of Haitiwaji's passport and a police interrogation
during which she is shown a photograph of her daughter attending a
Uyghur demonstration in Paris. One of the interrogators starts
bawling at her - "Your daughter's a terrorist!" and before long
Haitiwaji is plunged into a bewildering world of shackles, bunks
and beaten-earth floors; grey gruel and stale bread served up by
deaf-mute cooks selected for their silence; the sounds and smells
of the communal toilet-bucket; and the buzz of security camera
motors as they scan the cell.' ***** - Christopher Harding, Sunday
Telegraph Translated from the French book Rescapee du goulag
chinois (Equateurs), How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp is a
riveting insight into an authoritarian world. A true story, it
reads like a 21st Century version of George Orwell's 1984 set in
modern China.
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Coming Out of My Skin
Jean–baptiste Phou, Edward Gauvin
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A compelling memoir that focuses on the intersectionality of race
and sexuality experienced by a gay Asian immigrant man living in a
white world. Â Born to Chinese-Cambodian parents in France,
Jean-Baptiste Phou has pursued a diverse artistic career since
2008. Through his public views and artistic works, he has focused
mainly on the experiences of Asians in France. Up until now, he’s
always been careful not to raise issues of sexuality—in
particular, his homosexuality. Â In this searing memoir, Phou
faces his fears and shame to examine the role his ethnic origin has
played in the construction of his sexual identity and his romantic
relationships in a predominantly white environment. An astute
observer of the various ways in which his body has been perceived,
Phou explores how these perceptions have shaped his relationship
with himself and others. How does a marginalized person develop
emotionally and build, reclaim, and express their sexuality?
Drawing on various works of history, sociology, gender studies,
literature, and popular culture, Phou sensitively examines various
strategies developed in response to this question. Â Being
gay in a largely straight world is difficult but being Asian within
this sexual minority can be a doubly oppressive experience. Coming
Out of My Skin deftly tackles this challenge and aspires for a
reconciliation that can empower people of sexual and racial
minorities to joyfully inhabit their bodies.
First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100
copies, then republished in 1953 (and enthusiastically praised by
Andre Breton), The Conductor and Other Tales is Jean Ferry's only
published book of fiction. It is a collection of short prose
narratives that offer a blend of pataphysical humor and surreal
nightmare: secret societies so secret that one cannot know if one
is a member or not, music-hall acts that walk a tightrope from
humor to horror, childhood memories of a man never born, and
correspondence from countries that are more states of mind than
geographical locales. Lying somewhere between Kafka's parables and
the prose poems of Henri Michaux, Ferry's tales read like pages
from the journal of a stranger in a familiar land. Though extracts
have appeared regularly in Surrealist anthologies over the decades,
The Conductor has never been fully translated into English until
now. This edition includes four stories not included in the
original French edition and is illustrated throughout with collages
by Claude Ballare."
The twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of speculative
fiction in translation (SFT). Rachel Cordasco examines speculative
fiction published in English translation since 1960, ranging from
Soviet-era fiction to the Arabic-language dystopias that emerged
following the Iraq War. Individual chapters on SFT from Korean,
Czech, Finnish, and eleven other source languages feature an
introduction by an expert in the language's speculative fiction
tradition and its present-day output. Cordasco then breaks down
each chapter by subgenre--including science fiction, fantasy, and
horror--to guide readers toward the kinds of works that most
interest them. Her discussion of available SFT stands alongside an
analysis of how various subgenres emerged and developed in a given
language. She also examines the reasons a given subgenre has been
translated into English. An informative and one-of-a-kind guide,
Out of This World offers readers and scholars alike a tour of
speculative fiction's new globalized era.
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Pascin (Hardcover)
Joann Sfar; Translated by Edward Gauvin
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"Pascin," a biography of the noted Jewish modernist painter
(Julius Mordecai Pincas, known as Pascin, March 31, 1885-June 5,
1930), is Joann Sfar's most personal and important work. Pascin is
portrayed by Sfar both as a kindred spirit and an aesthetic
revolutionary struggling to redefine an art form. Sfar revels in
the artist's celebration of all things corporeal in the world of
art. Though the story is drenched in sex, it is never eroticized.
Created in a direct and immediate drawing style, Sfar focuses more
on the artist's personal and sexual life than on his art, and
brings Pascin to life as the ultimate bohemian.
Joann Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of
the new wave of European comics. He is the author and artist on a
great number of acclaimed graphic novels including "The Rabbi's
Cat," "Klezmer: Tales of the Wild East," "Vampire Loves," and
"Dungeon." He wrote and directed "Gainsbourg: Une Vie Heroique,"
the biopic of the illustrious French songwriter and singer. The
film was released in 2010 to international acclaim.
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Moving the Palace (Paperback)
Charif Majdalani; Translated by Edward Gauvin
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R420
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Eyes Full of Empty (Paperback)
Jeremie Guez; Translated by Edward Gauvin
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R402
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The son of an Algerian immigrant, Idir is a disappointment to his
doctor father. Torn between his wealthy school friends and his
neighborhood pals, who range from petty thieves to professional
criminals, Idir operates easily between worlds, and yet is at home
nowhere. Without much effort, Idir becomes one of the Parisian
upper crust's most sought-out private dicks, thanks to his
understanding of the needs of his privileged clients. The only
thing standing in his way is Idir's unfortunate habit of crying
uncontrollably. Things change when Oscar Crumley, a wealthy media
scion that Idir knew at university, reappears in Idir's life,
hiring him to find his missing younger half-brother, Thibaut. Idir
assumes it is an open and shut case. But when Idir discovers that
Thibaut was hiding his homosexuality from his conservative family,
his disappearance takes on sinister connotations. Distracted by his
intense affair with the wife of a wealthy friend, Idir ultimately
becomes embroiled in a war of lies and corruption between two of
France's most powerful media conglomerates. Inspired by Chandler
and the American greats, Guez uses the familiar tropes of noir to
create an entirely new language.
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Moving the Palace (MP3 format, CD)
Charif Majdalani; Translated by Edward Gauvin; Read by 1955- Jonathan Davis
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