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The White Mosque

- A Silk Road Memoir
Af: Sofia Samatar Engelsk Hardback

The White Mosque

- A Silk Road Memoir
Af: Sofia Samatar Engelsk Hardback
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Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year
Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year

A rich history of wanderers, exiles and intruders. A haunting personal journey through Central Asia. An intimate reflection on mixed identity shaped by cultural crossings.

In the late 1800s, a group of German-speaking Mennonites fled Russia for Muslim Central Asia, to await Christ’s return.

Over a century later, Sofia Samatar traces their gruelling journey across desert and mountains, and its improbable fruit: a small Christian settlement inside the Khanate of Khiva. Named ‘The White Mosque’ after the Mennonites’ whitewashed church, the village—a community of peace, prophecy, music and martyrs—lasted fifty years.

Within this curious tale, Sofia discovers a tapestry of characters connected by the ancient Silk Road: a fifteenth-century astronomer-king; an intrepid Swiss woman traveller; the first Uzbek photographer; a free spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. Along the way, in a voice both warm and wise, she explores her own complex upbringing as an American Mennonite of colour, the daughter of a Swiss-American Christian and a Somali Muslim.

On this pilgrimage to a lost village and a near-forgotten history, Samatar traces the porous borders of identity and narrative. When you leave your tribe, what remains? How do we enter the stories of others? And how, out of life’s buried archives and startling connections, does a person construct a self?

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Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award 

Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year
Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year

A rich history of wanderers, exiles and intruders. A haunting personal journey through Central Asia. An intimate reflection on mixed identity shaped by cultural crossings.

In the late 1800s, a group of German-speaking Mennonites fled Russia for Muslim Central Asia, to await Christ’s return.

Over a century later, Sofia Samatar traces their gruelling journey across desert and mountains, and its improbable fruit: a small Christian settlement inside the Khanate of Khiva. Named ‘The White Mosque’ after the Mennonites’ whitewashed church, the village—a community of peace, prophecy, music and martyrs—lasted fifty years.

Within this curious tale, Sofia discovers a tapestry of characters connected by the ancient Silk Road: a fifteenth-century astronomer-king; an intrepid Swiss woman traveller; the first Uzbek photographer; a free spirit of the Harlem Renaissance. Along the way, in a voice both warm and wise, she explores her own complex upbringing as an American Mennonite of colour, the daughter of a Swiss-American Christian and a Somali Muslim.

On this pilgrimage to a lost village and a near-forgotten history, Samatar traces the porous borders of identity and narrative. When you leave your tribe, what remains? How do we enter the stories of others? And how, out of life’s buried archives and startling connections, does a person construct a self?

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9781787388079
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1787388077
Kategori: Erindringer
Udg. Dato: 27 okt 2022
Længde: 34mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 167mm
Forlag: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 27 okt 2022
Forfatter(e): Sofia Samatar
Forfatter(e) Sofia Samatar


Kategori Erindringer


ISBN-13 9781787388079


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 304


Udgave


Længde 34mm


Bredde 242mm


Højde 167mm


Udg. Dato 27 okt 2022


Oplagsdato 27 okt 2022


Forlag C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd