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020			_a9781646220977 _qhc
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092			_aSAMATAR, S. _bS187
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aSamatar, Sofia, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe white mosque : _ba memoir / _cSofia Samatar.
250			_aFirst imprint edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bCatapult, _c2022.
264		4	_c©2022
300			_a314 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aSamatar, Sofia _xTravel _zUzbekistan.
650		0	_aMennonites _zUzbekistan _xHistory.
651		0	_aUzbekistan _xDescription and travel.
650		0	_aAuthors, American _y21st century _vBiography. _985646
655		7	_aTravel writing. _2lcgft _96889
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