Guapa
Guapa
paperback
Published:
19 September, 2019
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781787702059 |
| ISBN10 | 1787702057 |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Europa Editions (UK) Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
“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 *
“When the revolutions happened, I felt a very strong urge to write a story like this, partly out of this sense that I was still struggling to find a space for my voice because I was so mixed up. So I put everything into this novel and it was a relief.” GUARDIAN INTERVIEW * The Guardian *
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Author's Bio
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.