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. Mae’r stori yn dilyn ei berthynas gyda’i gariad gyfrinachol Taymour, ei mam-gu drahaus a’r wladwriaeth ormesol.Ī Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring. “ 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.Nofel am Rasa, dyn ifanc sy’n byw mewn dinas yn y Dwyrain canol yng nghanol ton chwyldroadol, sy’n siomedig gyda’r Gorllewin a’r Dwyrain. The topic of gay life in the Arab world is richly complex, and Haddad’s cinematic, evocative prose rises to meet the sensitive subject matter.” “Family, identity, and politics collide in Haddad’s debut. “…vibrant, wrenching début nsuous and caustic, full of smoke and blood.” 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'.” “This immensely readable novel is fluent, passionate and emotionally honest. “ Guapa offers an intimate, complex portrait of gay life in the Arab world, a subject rarely explored in fiction.” Wry and aching, irresistibly funny at times, Guapa heralds the arrival of a strong new voice from the Arabic world. Unable to go home, afraid for Majid’s fate, and heartbroken by Taymour’s determination to keep living a double life, Rasa’s fragile balance collapses, while all around him the brief, intense season of public protest is cut short by the regime’s repression and the rapid rise of the hard-line Islamist movement. 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 novel of the Arab Spring Winner of the Polari First Book Prize 2017Ī Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring.
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