Guapa by Saleem Haddad
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.
“Freewheeling and incendiary” * London Review of Books *
“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 *
"A vibrant, wrenching début novel...sensuous and caustic, full of smoke and blood.” * The New Yorker *
“Guapa offers an intimate, complex portrait of gay life in the Arab world, a subject rarely explored in fiction.” * Gay Times *
“A remarkable debut.” * Huffington Post *
“Guapa sets Haddad up as a literary voice capable of narrating untold stories of the modern gay experience, from one of the most complicated parts of the world.” * Attitude Magazine *
“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 *
"A vibrant, wrenching début novel...sensuous and caustic, full of smoke and blood.” * The New Yorker *
“Guapa offers an intimate, complex portrait of gay life in the Arab world, a subject rarely explored in fiction.” * Gay Times *
“A remarkable debut.” * Huffington Post *
“Guapa sets Haddad up as a literary voice capable of narrating untold stories of the modern gay experience, from one of the most complicated parts of the world.” * Attitude Magazine *
Saleem Haddad was born in Kuwait City in 1983 to a Lebanese-Palestinian father and an Iraqi-German mother, and was educated in Jordan, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He has worked as an aid worker with Doctors Without Borders in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, and has advised on humanitarian and peacebuilding issues throughout West Asia and North Africa. He is the author of the acclaimed debut Guapa, a 2017 Stonewall Honor Book and the winner of the 2017 Polari Prize. He is currently based in Lisbon.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781787702059 |
| ISBN 10 | 1787702057 |
| Title | Guapa |
| Author | Saleem Haddad |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-09-19 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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