01912nam a2200181 4500 6379 20181127181443.0 9789385755095 Haddad, Saleem. One last drink at Guapa / Saleem Haddad. New Delhi : Speaking Tiger, 2016. 358 p. First published as Guapa by Other Press, 2016. 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. Arab countries -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction. Gay men -- Arab countries -- Fiction. Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. 5377 5377 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC RTCLIB RTCLIB FIC 2022-04-07 10077 FIC 813.54 HAD 30010367 2022-01-03 00:00:00 2018-11-27 FIC