Sofia Samatar
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The White Mosque ; A Silk Road Memoir
Sofia Samatar
- C hurst & co publishers ltd
- 27 Octobre 2022
- 9781787388079
Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year
A 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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The White Review No.30
Can Xue, Kristin Omarsdottir, Laura Grace Ford, Jessica Yu, Sofia Samatar
- The white review
- 1 Mars 2021
- 9781916035133
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The New Voices of Fantasy
Eugene Fisher, Brooke Bolander, Maria Dahvana Headley, Ben Loory, Carmen Maria Machado, Usman T. Malik, Hannu Rajaniemi, Adam Ehrlich Sachs, Sofia Samatar
- Tachyon publications
- 7 Septembre 2017
- 9781616962579
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Jevik travels to the city of Olondria where he is overtaken by a ghost from his past.
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Using the sword, pen, body, and voice, four women confront a rebellion and the older, stranger threat behind it.
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Divided into "Tender Bodies" and "Tender Landscapes," these twenty stories travel from the commonplace to the edges of reality.
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Using the sword, pen, body, and voice, four women confront a rebellion and the older, stranger threat behind it.
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Divided into "Tender Bodies" and "Tender Landscapes," these twenty stories travel from the commonplace to the edges of reality.
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A Stranger in Olondria ; Being the Complete Memoirs of the Mystic, Jevick of Tyom
Sofia Samatar
- Audible studios on brilliance
- 28 Juin 2016
- 9781522672364
