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In the Spider's Room

In the Spider's Room

Abdelnabi, Muhammad
Wright, Jonathan

Paperback

Series: Hoopoe Fiction

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 9774168755
ISBN13: 9789774168758
Publisher: Hoopoe
Published: Sep 4 2018
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

WINNER OF THE 2019 PRIX DE LA LITTÉRATURE ARABE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION

A sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt and

Hani was out for an evening stroll near Cairo's Tahrir Square when a heavy hand landed on his shoulder. An informant had identified him, and he was thrown into the back of a police truck. There began a seven-month nightmare as he was swept up, along with fifty other men, in the infamous Queen Boat affair that targeted Egypt's gay community.

Finally free, but traumatized into speechlessness, Hani writes down the events of his life--his first sexual desires, his relationship with his mother, his marriage of convenience, and his passion for Abdel Aziz, the only man he ever truly loved.

In the Spider's Room is a bold tale of sexuality and persecution in contemporary Egypt.

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