One last drink at Guapa / (Record no. 5377)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field 6379
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 00 - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789385755095
100 00 - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Haddad, Saleem.
245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title One last drink at Guapa /
Remainder of title
Statement of responsibility, etc. Saleem Haddad.
Medium
260 00 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Speaking Tiger,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2016.
300 00 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 358 p.
500 00 - GENERAL NOTE
General note First published as Guapa by Other Press, 2016.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Set over the course of twenty-four hours, One Last Drink at Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, and trying to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and religious upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists, and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. Then one morning Rasa's grandmother, the woman who raised him, catches them in bed together. The following day-the day leading up to Taymour's wedding-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, he 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 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Arab countries -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction.
General subdivision
Topical term or geographic name entry element Gay men -- Arab countries -- Fiction.
General subdivision
Topical term or geographic name entry element Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Fiction RTC Library RTC Library Fiction 07/04/2022 10077 FIC 813.54 HAD 30010367 03/01/2022 27/11/2018 Fiction
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