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The white mosque : a memoir / Sofia Samatar.
"In the late nineteenth century, a group of German-speaking Mennonites traveled from Russia into Central Asia, where their charismatic leader predicted Christ would return. Over a century later, Sofia Samatar joins a tour following their path, fascinated not by the hardships of their journey, but by its aftermath: the establishment of a small Christian village in the Muslim Khanate of Khiva. Named Ak Metchet, "The White Mosque," after the Mennonites' whitewashed church, the village lasted for fifty years. 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"-- Provided by publisher
Record details
- ISBN: 9781646220977
- ISBN: 1646220978
- Physical Description: 314 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First imprint edition.
- Publisher: New York : Catapult, 2022.
- Copyright: 2022
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Part one: wanderers. Tashkent: a more dazzling vison -- The hunger steppe: to transform the world into signs -- Samarkand: I have set before thee an open door -- Part two: home-ache. Kok Ota: sad comedy att he border -- Bukhara: safely arrive at home -- The desert: the wall is no more, nor those who daubed it -- Part three: the place of refuge. Khiva: all in a pale and ghostly light -- Ak Metchet: the world didn'd end -- Tashkent: a land gleams at us from afar. |
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| Subject: | Samatar, Sofia > Travel > Uzbekistan. Mennonites > Uzbekistan > History. Authors, American > 21st century > Biography. Uzbekistan > Description and travel. |
| Genre: | Personal narratives. Autobiographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Kansas City Public Library | 958.7086 SAMATAR 2022 (Text) | 0001012492198 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Table of Contents
The White Mosque : A Memoir
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Part 1 | Wanderers | |
| 1 | Tashkent-a more dazzling vision | p. 3 |
| Begin with the glow | ||
| Pilgrims | ||
| Beautiful error | ||
| The implausible story | ||
| A magpie existence | ||
| Corrective (Un)homelike | ||
| Shakhrisahz | ||
| 2 | The Hunger Steppe-to transform the world into signs | p. 27 |
| The raven's claw | ||
| Shadows of earthly things | ||
| 3 | Samarkand-I have set before thee an open door | p. 61 |
| Ancient versus modern | ||
| Heroes | ||
| Turkestan Album | ||
| The crows | ||
| How sweet you are, you hitter life! | ||
| The German sense of order | ||
| The missionary effect | ||
| These two drops | ||
| The place of hunger | ||
| Star catalogue | ||
| Part 2 | Home-ache | |
| 4 | Kok Ota-sad comedy of the border | p. 89 |
| Blue Grandfather | ||
| Eat this book | ||
| The Home in the East | ||
| The outsider comes in | ||
| The insider goes out | ||
| The taste of love | ||
| Who we are | ||
| 5 | Bukhara-safely to arrive at home | p. 115 |
| Halfway | ||
| The ethnic ghost | ||
| The photograph | ||
| Cultural show | ||
| Alphabet of bone | ||
| Writing coming home | ||
| The supplicants | ||
| La vie immédiate | ||
| The dreamers | ||
| 6 | The Desert-the wall is no more, nor those who daubed it | p. 151 |
| Claas Epp syndrome | ||
| All or none Revisions | ||
| Elementary German homework | ||
| Other deserts, other endings | ||
| Interviews with converts | ||
| A few conclusions | ||
| Your stories, my elders | ||
| Apocalyptic Mirror | ||
| Sight | ||
| Voice | ||
| Paradoxes of martyrdom | ||
| Elizabeth's dragon | ||
| A swollen book | ||
| The words of departure | ||
| Part 3 | The Place of Refuge | |
| 7 | Khiva-all in a pale and ghostly light | p. 205 |
| Algorithm | ||
| Eisegesis | ||
| Photography and the angels | ||
| Grandfather Lantern | ||
| The light thief | ||
| The lone curator | ||
| Everyone shines | ||
| Saturated | ||
| I'm not local | ||
| Love story | ||
| 8 | Ak Metchet-the world didn't end | p. 249 |
| This is our valley | ||
| The historians | ||
| Love story (second draft) | ||
| Prayer | ||
| The returnee | ||
| The leaky caravanserai | ||
| Stories of brown girlhood | ||
| 9 | Tashkent-a land gleams at us from afar | p. 287 |
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