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Winner of the Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction 2018 Winner of an American Library Association Stonewall Honor 2018 Winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize from the Modern Language Association 2018 ![]() Winner of the John Boswell Prize from the American Historical Association 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() Eerie, banal, yet bearing the cold imprint of reality, Sirees’s vision of tyranny, superlatively translated, is distinctive enough to be ranked with Orwell, Huxley or Marquez’s." - Robin Yassin-Kassab, The Independent "This is a small dystopian treasure of Gogolian texture, nightmarish but light, self-referential but never pretentious.But the strength of his political allegory slots the novel into a formidable lineage of fictions illuminating the dark corners of dictatorship, repression and blinding bureaucracy" - Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Daily Star Sirees explains too much and leaves too little to chance or mystery. 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