The White Mosque av Sofia Samatar

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<p><strong>Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award </strong></p><p><strong>A <em>Kirkus Reviews</em> Best Book of The Year<br>A <em>Literary Hub</em> Most Anticipated Book of the Year</strong></p><p><strong>A rich history of wanderers, exiles and intruders. A haunting personal journey through Central Asia. An intimate reflection on mixed identity shaped by cultural crossings.</strong></p><p>In the late 1800s, a group of German-speaking Mennonites fled Russia for Muslim Central Asia, to await Christ¿s return.</p><p>Over a century later, Sofia Samatar traces their gruelling journey across desert and mountains, and its improbable fruit: a small Christian settlement inside the Khanate of Khiva. Named ¿The White Mosque¿ after the Mennonites¿ whitewashed church, the village¿a community of peace, prophecy, music and martyrs¿lasted fifty years.</p><p>Within this curious tale, Sofia discovers a tapestry of characters connected by the ancient Silk Road: a fifteenth-century astronomer