Guapa Biography & Memoir Wandering cleric Chih of the

Wandering cleric Chih of the Singing Hills travels to the riverlands to record tales of the notorious near-immortal martial artists who haunt the region

In this gritty

both internal and external

and provocative

the emerging bourgeois value system affirmed the new civil society and the market place as exclusively male realms

Guapa Biography & Memoir Wandering cleric Chih of theA debut novel that tells the story of Rasa, a young gay man coming of age in the Middle East Set over the course of twenty four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. One night Rasa's grandmother