5/19/2023 0 Comments Guapa book![]() ![]() But a certain coyness pervades the narrative, at times distracting from an otherwise absorbing story. Rasa, introspective and witty, makes a sympathetic narrator, and the story is filled with moments of heartbreak and tension (a loaded scene involving Rasa, the Western journalist he translates for, and a husband-wife team of Islamic revolutionaries is especially well-done). ![]() As Rasa grapples with these conflicts, he also remembers his past-from his sexual awakening to his four years in America for college to experiences at his one refuge, the neighborhood bar/underground gay club that gives the novel its title. ![]() First his grandmother catches him in bed with his lover, then his best friend is arrested at a gay cinema. Set against the backdrop of a country on the brink of civil war, Haddad’s debut novel follows a young gay man, Rasa, over a tense 24 hours. In an unnamed Middle Eastern country, a young translator deals with the fallout after his grandmother catches him with another man. ![]()
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