LEADER 00000pam  2200313 i 4500 
003    DLC 
005    20160601094613.0 
008    151102s2016    nyu    e      000 1 eng   
010      2015039123 
020    9781590517697 (softcover) 
040    DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dGCmBT|dUtOrBLW 
042    pcc 
043    ma----- 
092    |fF|aHADDAD 
100 1  Haddad, Saleem,|eauthor. 
245 10 Guapa /|cSaleem Haddad. 
264  1 New York :|bOther Press,|c[2016] 
300    358 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    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. 
650  0 Gay men|zArab countries|vFiction. 
650  0 Interpersonal relations|vFiction. 
650  0 Self-actualization (Psychology)|vFiction. 
651  0 Arab countries|xSocial conditions|y21st century|vFiction. 
655  7 Bildungsromans.|2gsafd