In Dubai theres a new world of high-luxury resorts emerging for the super-rich but at what price to everyone else?
In Dubai, Lea, Roy and their daughter Cara live in a gated community reserved for foreign workers. Roy deals with problems at Dream World, a futuristic beach complex. Lea finds herself a virtual prisoner in a land where Western women are regarded with indifference and suspicion. When an outspoken ex-pat dies in a suspicious accident, it's the first in a string of terrible occurrences that divide the foreign workers. What happens in a world where only the rich are important... and where rebellion against conformity can lead to the unthinkable....
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This book is many things. There's a lot of JG Ballard in the isolation of the expat compound and the stunning artifice of the luxury hotel. It's a homage to Ira Levin, especially The Stepford Wives and Rosemary's Baby, it's an impassioned rant against the treatment of migrant workers in Dubai, and it's an ecological metaphor, where the theme of children disappearing around the hotel can be read as a commentary on how short term profit seeking ignores the consequences for the future. The ending is maybe a bit too ambiguous for my tastes, but nevertheless it's fun getting there. Well worth a read.
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