RaveThe Boston GlobeOne of the best available histories of the genocidal policies in Xinjiang since 2015, and is especially valuable as an on-the-ground, first-person account ... The story is all the more powerful for the matter-of-fact way Izgil tells it ... We can only hope that with this translation, Izgil’s gripping story and Uyghur literature generally will gain more well-deserved global attention.