White Mosque e-bog
135,33 DKK
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In the late 1800s, a group of German-speaking Mennonites fled Russia for Muslim Central Asia, to await Christs 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 villagea community of peace, pr...
E-bog
135,33 DKK
Forlag
Hurst Publishers
Udgivet
27 oktober 2022
Længde
304 sider
Genrer
Memoirs
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781787389793
In the late 1800s, a group of German-speaking Mennonites fled Russia for Muslim Central Asia, to await Christs 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 villagea community of peace, prophecy, music and martyrslasted 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 lifes buried archives and startling connections, does a person construct a self?