Guapa novel6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() That same day Rasa learns his best friend, the famous drag queen Majid, has been arrested by the police. ![]() ![]() When she finds them in bed together on the eve of Taymour’s wedding day, all hell breaks loose. Every night Taymour sneaks into the house Rasa shares with his overbearing grandmother, the woman who raised him. 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. 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. “…vibrant, wrenching début nsuous and caustic, full of smoke and blood.” - The New YorkerĪ Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring. “Freewheeling and incendiary.” - London Review of Books “A remarkable debut.” - The Huffington Post WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2017 ![]()
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