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Summary:

"Sex, vengeance, and betrayal in modern day Tehran-Navid Sinaki's bold and cinematic debut is a queer literary noir following Anjir, a morbid romantic and petty thief whose boyfriend disappears just as they're planning to leave their hometown for good. Anjir and Zal are childhood best friends turned adults in love. The only problem is they live in Iran, where being openly gay is criminalized, and the government's apparent acceptance of trans people requires them to surgically transition and pass as cis straight people. When Zal is brutally attacked after being seen with another man in public, despite the betrayal, Anjir becomes even more determined to carry out their longstanding plan: Anjir, who's always identified with the mythical gender-changing Tiresias, will become a woman, and they'll move to a new town for a fresh start as husband and wife. Then Zal vanishes. Stalking and stealing his way through the streets, clubs, library stacks, hotel rooms, and museum halls of Tehran, Anjir's morals and gender identity are pushed to new places in the pursuit of Zal, peace, and self-determination. Steeped in ancient Persian and Greek myths, and brimming with poetic vulnerability, subversive bite, and noirish grit, Medusa of the Roses is a page-turning wallop of a story from a bright new literary talent"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Sinaki, Navid , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Medusa of the roses: a novel [by Sinaki, N.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Medusa of the roses [by Sinaki, N.] (First edition; New York : Grove Press, 2024 — ISBN 9780802163035; LCCN 2024012013)

Subjects:

Gay men — Fiction

Man-man relationships — Fiction

Secrecy — Fiction

Homophobia — Fiction

Gender identity — Fiction

Gender reassignment surgery — Fiction

Transgender women — Fiction

Male-to-female transsexuals — Fiction

Betrayal — Fiction

Missing persons — Fiction

Thieves — Fiction

General Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 12, 2024).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PS3619.I56678 M43 2024eb

ISBNs:

9780802163042 (electronic book)
0802163041 (electronic book)
9780802163035 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2024012014

OCLC Numbers:

1428040138

Other Control Numbers:

3978919 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp306560590