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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Tursun, Perhat, 1969- author.     Subjects     Poverty -- China -- Fiction.     China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Tursun, Perhat, 1969- author.       by title:      The backstreets : a ...         MARC Display

The backstreets : a novel from Xinjiang / Perhat Tursun ; translated by Darren Byler and Anonymous. by Tursun, Perhat, 1969- author. New York : Columbia University Press, [2022] Subjects Poverty -- China -- Fiction.   China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. ISBN:  9780231202916 (trade paperback : alk. paper) : 0231202911 (trade paperback : alk. paper) Description:  xxviii, 136 pages ; 22 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Turson Checked In Add Copy to MyList CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Adult Fiction Tursun Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Fiction Tursun Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction Tursun Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Adult Fiction Tursun Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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