'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-powe
