![]() ![]() Many in the West still wrestle with their own homosexuality, of course, but there’s something in Rasa’s story that could never carry quite the same weight in a similar story of a young American or European man coming of age: eib. ![]() It lives on in societies splintered by modernity where one man’s day can pass seamlessly between translating interviews with so-called terrorist elements, enjoying a raucous underground drag scene, and listening intently as the government shells the terrorist strongholds in a neighborhood not far from the protagonist’s own. ![]() Haddad reminds us that the signature surreptitiousness of gay life has not disappeared despite astounding progress in the West. If a novel can (and should) transcend the “gay” label, it’s Haddad’s Guapa. Novels on homosexuality coming out of the Arab experience have emerged with an unparalleled authenticity and a familiarity that is difficult to find elsewhere anymore - from Abdellah Taïa to Hasan Namir, and now Saleem Haddad. ![]()
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