Sofia Samatar - The White Mosque A Memoir - 2022 [EN]

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"The White Mosque by Sofia Samatar" is a Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs title in English, distributed as a EPUB file (10.8 MB). Written by Sofia Samatar. The book spans approximately 271 pages with 85,476 words. Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award) Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identity 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,...

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CategoryBooks

LanguageEnglish (EN)

GenreBiography And Autobiography, History, Religion And Spirituality

QualityEPUB

Size10.8 MB

Pages271

ArchivedAug 31, 2026

Synopsis

Now the plov arrives, the national dish, studded with raisins, each grain of rice gleaming darkly with oil and spices. Plov tastes best eaten with the fingers, Kholid remarks, but he eats it with a fork, so I do too. This must have happened at the conqueror’s birthplace, Shakhrisabz. In the hot summer sky, this blue exudes a coolness almost green. They have come to see where their ancestors walked, to taste the air, the fruit, to photograph any traces that remain. Like their ancestors who migrat