God in Pink
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
Lambda Literary Award winner, Best Gay Fiction
A revelatory novel about being queer and Muslim, set in war-torn Iraq in 2003. Ramy is a young gay Iraqi struggling to find a balance between his sexuality, religion, and culture. Ammar is a sheikh whose guidance Ramy seeks, and whose tolerance is tested by his belief in the teachings of the Qur'an. Full of quiet moments of beauty and raw depictions of violence, God in Pink poignantly captures the anguish and the fortitude of Islamic life in Iraq.
Hasan Namir was born in Iraq in 1987. God in Pink is his first novel.
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Customer Reviews
Worth Your Time, For Sure
"God in Pink" was an especially difficult, and compelling, book for me to read, because I kept seeing a friend in the role of Ramy, the protagonist. This friend is a young man I met through my blog, "This Gay Relationship," nearly three years ago. While he lives in Iran, and Ramy lives in Iraq, both countries hold the same view of homosexuality. And, since my friend still lives in his home country, I imagine what happens to Ramy could happen to him.
"Pink" is a slight book (scarcely 150 pages), yet it's powerful, and, for the most part, well-written. At its center is Ramy, and his struggle to love in a country that forbids same-sex love. The story had me until the end, when some extreme events happen in a matter of a few pages (in other words, it all seemed a little hurried to me). That said, I genuinely cared about what happened to Ramy, and Ammar, the subject of an equally-compelling subplot. And, since I've had time to think about it, I see the ending, while not what I had hoped for, is probably the most realistic and satisfying one.
Hasan Namir is the 29-year-old writer, who was born in Iraq, and whose family moved to Canada when he was about ten. He's a local writer, "Pink" is his debut novel, and I'd like to see him succeed with it. (Apart from what I've already noted, the only quibble I have with "Pink" is with the ebook version. It has several formatting errors, in the final section, which are distracting and confusing. Assuming these are fixed, readers should enjoy "Pink," and their eyes should be opened by it.)