''This gripping memoir shows the courage and cost of telling a truer story'' GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY
''A memoir of an extraordinary life, which takes in the past 50 years of Xinjiang''s history ... fascinating'' THE TIMES
''Revelatory'' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
A powerful and urgent memoir by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja - a remarkable woman who went from being a beloved star on Chinese children''s TV to a journalist whose reporting on the oppression of her people led to her entire extended family being imprisoned.
In 2018, twenty-four members of Gulchehra Hoja''s family, including her elderly parents, were arrested by the Chinese state. Gulchehra had been forced to leave her family behind when she fled to a new life in the United States, and the arrests were an act of retaliation against her investigations for Radio Free Asia into the plight of the Uyghur people.
For the Uyghurs, this kind of oppression
