In the Spider's Room
Subtitle: A Novel
By: Muhammad Abdelnabi ; translated by Jonathan Wright
Contributors: Wright, Jonathan, 1953- translator
Publisher: Hoopoe
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Translated from: ara
Translation of: في غرفة العنكبوت
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9789774168758
Subjects: Gays; Fiction
Work titles: Fi ghurfat al-'ankabut
Description: "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 sensitive and courageous account of life as a gay man in Egypt."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Translation from the Arabic of: Fi ghurfat al-'ankabut.