Floodlines: The new novel from the author of Guapa

Saleem Haddad

Key Selling Points:

• From the author of Guapa, winner of the 2017 Polari Prize 

• Ideal for book clubs with a focus on diasporic identity, and global LGBTQ+ narratives 

• Chronicles key moments in modern Iraqi history 

• Saleem has a large readership, and will be championed by many queer bookstores such as Gays the Word, The Common Press, The Queery, etc 

• is Saleem’s long-awaited second novel, and has been ten years in the making 

• The novel explores the artistic and cultural legacy of Iraqi Modernism and the Baghdad Modern Art group 

• Saleem is happy to do events across the UK and Europe, as well as in Lebanon and other MENA countries 

Target Readership:

• For lovers of contemporary literature from the Middle East & North Africa, such as Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad; Inaam Kachachi’s The Dispersal; Sinan Antoon’s The Book of Collateral Damage; Iraq + 100: Stories from a Century After the Invasion, ed. Hassan Blasim; and Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis 

• For fans of Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (over 50K copies sold) and Hisham Matar’s works (My Friends: 30K copies sold) 

• For readers of multigenerational family sagas, such as Well-Behaved Indian Women by Saumya Dave; The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan; Khaled Hosseini’s And The Mountains Echoed; and The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani 

• Perfect for those interested in queer Arabic literature, such as This Arab is Queer, ed. Elias Jahshan; Cinnamon by Samar Yazbek; In the Spider’s Room by Mohammed Abdel Nabi; and Hoda Barakat’s The Stone of Laughter