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02730aam a2200373 i 4500 001 76AC6D62AC3511ED92CDDD2F4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230214010122 008 211215s2022 nyu b 000 f eng 010 $a 2021059846 020 $a 0231202911 020 $a 9780231202916 020 $a 0231202903 020 $a 9780231202909 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d TOH $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h uig 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PL54.69.T87 $b C4813 2022 082 00 $a 894/.3233 $2 23/eng/20220301 100 1 $a Tursun, Perhat, $d 1969- $e author. 240 10 $a Chong sheher. $l English 245 14 $a The backstreets : $b a novel from Xinjiang / $c Perhat Tursun ; translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2022] 300 $a xxviii, 136 pages ; $c 23 cm 500 $a Translated from the Uighur. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "An astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary job in a government office. Seeking to escape the pain and poverty of the countryside, he finds only cold stares and rejection. He wanders the streets, accompanied by the bitter fog of winter pollution, reciting a monologue of numbers and odors, lust and loathing, memories and madness. Perhat Tursun's novel is a work of untrammeled literary creativity. His evocative prose recalls a vast array of canonical world writers-contemporary Chinese authors such as Mo Yan; the modernist images and rhythms of Camus, Dostoevsky, and Kafka; the serious yet absurdist dissection of the logic of racism in Ellison's Invisible Man-while drawing deeply on Uyghur literary traditions and Sufi poetics and combining all these disparate influences into a style that is distinctly Tursun's own. The Backstreets is a stark fable about urban isolation and social violence, dehumanization and the racialization of ethnicity. Yet its protagonist's vivid recollections of maternal tenderness and first love reveal how memory and imagination offer profound forms of resilience. A translator's introduction situates the novel in the political atmosphere that led to the disappearance of both the author and his work"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Poverty $z China $v Fiction. 651 0 $a China $x Social life and customs $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Byler, Darren, $e translator. 941 $a 2 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20231017010900.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20230214011546.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=76AC6D62AC3511ED92CDDD2F4CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search