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WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2017
"A remarkable debut." - The Huffington Post
"Freewheeling and incendiary." - London Review of Books
"...vibrant, wrenching debut novel...sensuous and caustic, full of smoke and blood." - The New Yorker
A Middle-Eastern capital caught in the revolutionary wave of the Arab Spring.…
Why read it?
1 author picked Guapa as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This was the first novel I read about immigration, queerness, and Muslimness, the complex reasons why people choose to live in the Global South, and the complex reasons why people choose to leave.
I love the writing: it is lyrical and intimate, and the characters have stayed with me long since.
From Lamya's list on queer and trans Muslim experiences.
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