{"product_id":"9781910409817","title":"Witch Doctor of Umm Suqeim, The","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBanned in Dubai\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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 city’s wide social spectrum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A writer who is clearly an exquisite stylist, with copious and choice vocabulary and a succinct restraint of manner’ --Stevie Davies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The prose is purposeful, delicate where necessary’ --Rachel Billingdon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craig Hawes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52492995166472,"sku":"9781910409817","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0945\/8519\/2712\/files\/9781910409817.jpg?v=1770799233","url":"https:\/\/www.ffolio.wales\/products\/9781910409817","provider":"ffolio.wales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}