As Rasa confronts the simultaneous collapse of political hope and his closest personal relationships, he is forced to discover the roots of his alienation and try to re-emerge into a society that may never accept him.

Each new encounter leads him closer to confronting his own identity, as he revisits his childhood and probes the secrets that haunt his family. There’s fear at the heart of every desire and desire at the heart of fear. But fear and desire are more complicated than that. Ashamed to go home and face his grandmother, and reeling from the potential loss of the three most important people in his life, Rasa roams the city's slums and prisons, the lavish weddings of the country's elite, and the bars where outcasts and intellectuals drink to a long-lost revolution. Saleem Haddad tags: guapa 6 likes Like You know people say the opposite of fear is desire, where we presumably run away from what we fear and toward what we desire.

The following day Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar, Guapa, who has been arrested by the police. Guapa By Saleem Haddad / Chosen by Chloé Benoist Saleem Haddad’s debut novel, Guapa (Europa Editions, 2016), follows its protagonist, a young Arab man named Rasa, over the course of a long. One night Rasa's grandmother - the woman who raised him - catches them in bed together. Bild: laif Saleem Haddads Roman Guapa erzählt vom Schicksal eines Homosexuellen in der arabischen Welt. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. Der Schriftsteller Saleem Haddad lebt in London. Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East

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