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“Maleea Acker (at left) joins four other writers shortlisted this year for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Three writers are up for the City of Victoria Children’s Book Prize. Read more here.FULL STORY

 

 

It’s a long way from Iraq

September 22nd, 2015

And you thought it was hard being gay in Victoria? Or Whitehorse? Set in war-torn Iraq in 2003, Hasan Namir’s forthcoming novel about being queer and Muslim, God in Pink (Arsenal $15.95) breaks new ground for B.C. publishing. Born in Iraq in 1987, Namir has graduated from SFU with a BA in English. Set in Iraq, his story follows the travails of a gay university student named Ramy whose parents have died, so he seeks counsel—as well as escape from the scrutiny of his fundamentalist brother and sister-in-law—with a sheikh at the local mosque, Ammar. When the teachings of the Qur’an don’t mesh with the realities of Ramy’s anguished predicament, the inherited belief system is called into question. It’s a long way from The Well of Loneliness. 978-1-55152-605-5

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