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A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs

A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope

Gulchehra Hoja

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Coup de coeur
Coup de coeur (Asia, Aus & Oceania), by Chloe
This book is so important, I cannot overstate that fact. Among the immense pain, it teaches us that caring, loving and fighting for what is right in our daily lives is all we can do. Don't stop loving and caring. Don't stop speaking out about immeasurable injustices. The Uyghur people are living in Orwell's 1984 and the Chinese government's genocide again them should not be ignored. This memoir is heartbreaking but so vital, we need to know and should not forget. Let us never take our freedoms for granted.

A powerful and urgent memoir of loss, exile and hope by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja

'This gripping memoir conveys the courage and cost of telling a truer story' Guardian Book of the Day


'Revelatory ... The particulars of her story speak for the losses of a people' Sunday Telegraph


'Essential reading' Financial Times

In February 2018, twenty-four members of Uyghur journalist Gulchehra Hoja's family were arrested by the Chinese state as a direct retaliation for her investigations into Chinese oppression of the Uyghur people.

Hoja grew up with her people's culture and history running through her veins. As a young woman, she became a star presenter on Chinese state television, but then she began to understand what China was doing to her people, as well as her own complicity as a journalist. When her rising fame and growing political awakening coincided, she made it her mission, despite the personal cost, to expose the crimes Beijing continues to commit in the far reaches of its nation.

'A memoir of an extraordinary life, which takes in the past 50 years of Xinjiang's history. This story is normally told with statistics, but she illuminates it with the all-important details' The Times

'A deeply moving page turner' Michael Portillo


'Pulses with energy and beauty, making us care about what is being erased at mass scale by telling a deeply personal tale' Sunday Telegraph


'A textured story of how Uyghurs tried to survive and subvert Chinese cruelty' The Economist

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Mar 2024
Dimensions: 127 x 196 x 23 mm
ISBN: 9780349015989