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The Witch Doctor of Umm Suqeim, Paperback / softback Book

The Witch Doctor of Umm Suqeim Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Banned in Dubai

A vision of contemporary Dubai from the perspective of a variety of expats from different parts of the world, telling tales of hardship and the high-life, paranoia and alienation, cruelty and love. The locations switch from parties at mansions to high-rise apartment blocks, taxi interiors to gyms, featuring an array of characters that span the citys wide social spectrum.

A writer who is clearly an exquisite stylist, with copious and choice vocabulary and a succinct restraint of manner --Stevie Davies

This is how we need to assess culture clash and, indeed, general confrontation born from intractable socio-political differences; with cool, clear, precise and prismatic prose. Hawes does exactly this with tremendous skill and sensitivity --Niall Griffiths

The prose is purposeful, delicate where necessary --Rachel Billingdon

Hawes collection of short stories are a superb snapshot of the expat experience, devoid of cliche and dripping with pathos and humour and fear and scandal and hope --James Montague

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