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Guapa
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"Freewheeling and incendiary." - London Review of Books "...vibrant, wrenching début novel...sensuous and caustic, full of smoke and blood." - The New Yorker
A Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring. A day in the life of a young man disillusioned with both East and West and struggling to find a place for himself in a society ruled by hypocrisy and contradictions. Rasa works as an interpreter for Western journalists by day and divides his nights between the Guapa, an underground nightclub where the city's clandestine LGBT community congregates, and his secret lover Taymour. Every night Taymour sneaks into the house Rasa shares with his overbearing grandmother, the woman who raised him. When she finds them in bed together on the eve of Taymour's wedding day, all hell breaks loose. >
"This immensely readable novel is fluent, passionate and emotionally honest. Equally astute in its analysis of Arab and American mores, the book's characters are nuanced and dynamic; it gives fresh life to the maxim 'the personal is political'." - The Guardian
"Guapa offers an intimate, complex portrait of gay life in the Arab world, a subject rarely explored in fiction." - Gay Times
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2019-09-19
Publication Date:
2019-09-19
Publisher:
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1787702057
ISBN13:
9781787702059
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
215 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
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