Bobuq Sayed

'This is literature at its finest - tender, attentive and daring.' – Omar Sakr, author of Son of Sin Nothing to Hide is Australia's first mainstream anthology of trans and gender-diverse writing. While there has been unprecedented trans visibility in Australia in the last decade, this visibility has not always been positive, shadowed at every step by transphobic misinformation and...

‘Desire, belonging and sacrifice knot tight. Sensual, political and beautifully wrought.’—The Australian, ‘the big books of 2026’ In this seductive, provocative debut, two Afghan men—cast out of their respective countries of birth by circumstances beyond their control—collide in Istanbul, a city that will test their willingness to sacrifice everything for the ones they love. When Delbar—a hapless twenty-something with dreams...