
The White Mosque
A Memoir
by Sofia Samatar
Narrated by Sofia Samatar
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Pub Date Jan 24 2023 | Archive Date Jan 24 2023
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Description
In pursuit of this curious history, Samatar discovers a variety of characters whose lives intersect around the ancient Silk Road, from a fifteenth-century astronomer-king, to an intrepid Swiss woman traveler of the 1930s, to the first Uzbek photographer, and explores such topics as Central Asian cinema, Mennonite martyrs, and Samatar's own complex upbringing as the daughter of a Swiss-Mennonite and a Somali-Muslim, raised as a Mennonite of color in America.
A secular pilgrimage to a lost village and a near-forgotten history, The White Mosque traces the porous and ever-expanding borders of identity, asking: How do we enter the stories of others? And how, out of the tissue of life, with its weird incidents, buried archives, and startling connections, does a person construct a self?
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of The Year
A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A TIME Best Book of the Month
Advance Praise
"An enthralling memoir." —Laura Zornosa, A TIME Best Book of the Month
"Samatar, the child of a Swiss German Mennonite mother and a Somali Muslim father, constructs a travel memoir out of acts of pilgrimage. In Uzbekistan she retraces the journey of 19th century Mennonites to Samarkand, where the 'white mosque' of the title—a Mennonite church—leads her to unpack her own identity and sense of wanderlust. What begins as a 'palimpsestic' journey becomes a stunning mosaic of history, memoir and reportage." —Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times
"Samatar blends travelogue with a larger meditation on faith, community, and colonization." —The New Yorker
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format, Unabridged |
ISBN | 9781696609852 |
PRICE | $24.99 (USD) |
DURATION | 10 Hours, 55 Minutes |
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