“Khaled Alesmael reminds me of Jean Genet, brutal and hopelessly romantic at the same time.” ―Jonas Gardell, Expressen

“Despite the difficult themes dealt with in the book, it is always full of humor and irony.” ―Henrik Bromander, Swedish Television

“In the novel Selamlik, the Syrian-Swedish writer Khaled Alesmael tells of curiosity and desire - and the winter landscape of Sweden. With a mixture of pleasant laconicism and narrative poignancy, Khaled Alesmael does not shy away from describing the horrors of civil war or the more tangible details of love between men. One can smell both the ‘slaughtered lemons’ from the trees of bombed Damascus and the mixture of sweat and castile soap in the catacombs of the hammams. All this without becoming pornographic, either in terms of horror or sex.” ―TAZ Berlin

“What does it mean to be a homosexual man in dictatorial pre-war Syria? The author Khaled Alesmael, who fled to Sweden, talks about this in his autobiographically grounded novel Selamlik: precise, crystalline and with amazing calm, without any lyrical and metaphorical exuberance.” ―Deutschlandfunk Kultur

“Selamlik, which means "a room only for men", is Khaled Alesmael's debut novel. Alesmael's language is beautiful in its simplicity and manages to be powerful without great excesses.” ―Amnesty Press

“A future classic”― Dagens Nyheter

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