‘Sabbagh is the RK Narayan of our times.’ – Christopher Jackson, poet and biographer

‘Sabbagh gives us something we do not expect: a small place packed with complex dwellers.’ – Adnan Mahmutović, author of How to Fare Well and Stay Fair 

‘A cast of vivid characters, whose interlocking fortunes and fascinatingly detailed lives create a compelling story, yet achieve the status of proverb.’ – Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL, poet and writer

‘A delightful kaleidoscopic tale of contemporary Dubai.’ – Dr Pamela Chrabieh, Middle Eastern Studies expert and writer

‘This piece is an oasis of sanity in the toppled modern world, and a perfect travel guide to the soul of the princedom where multiple private miracles do happen.’ – Svetlana Lavochkina, novelist, poet, translator

‘Omar Sabbagh is an extraordinary writer – intelligent, witty, sharp-eyed and compassionate.’ – Dr Jan Fortune, Cinnamon Press

‘Sabbagh situates his prose and the reader in a space where we each rehearse our failures and perhaps, our small victories.’ – Peter Salmon, author of The Coffee Story

‘Sabbagh captures the restless, cosmopolitan spirit of Dubai through a perceptive, touching and often comic narrative in which the dreams and dramas of several disparate and engagingly drawn characters are intertwined. An original, upbeat and entertaining read.’ – Susannah Tarbush, journalist, reviewer and blogger