A debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East 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. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother — the woman who raised him — catches them in bed together. 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. 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. Each new encounter leads him closer to confronting his own identity, as he revisits his childhood and probes the secrets that haunt his family. 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.

Guapa: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Haddad, Saleem

Dramas & Plays

Other Press

Guapa

Europa Editions

Literary

Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

<div>Something has fallen away. We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject. Following the success of Comma's award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject--Julia Kristeva's theory of the psychoanalytic, intimate abject, and Georges Bataille's societal equivalent--with visceral stories of modern unease.</div>

The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease (Modern Horror)

Woodward, Gerard

HADDON, Mark

Williams, Lara

CONSTANTINE, David

THEROUX,PAUL

Beard, Alan

Schofield, Sarah

Holness, Matthew

Haughey, Meave

McKnight Hardy, Lucie

Poulson, Christine

Bishop, Bernadine

Featherstone, Karen

Holmes, Gaia

Marek, Adam

Campbell, Ramsey

DRABBLE, Margaret

Genre Fiction

Comma Press

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