The idea around which this book revolves is the necessity of integration between economic development and administrative reforms to achieve the goal of achieving the desired economic sustainability of the United Arab Emirates. One hand cannot clap and a building cannot be erected if one hand builds and the other holds a pickaxe and demolishes what the first hand built.
About the novel:
The novel belongs to the doctrine of absurdity, as it tends towards black comedy, and in general it paints rich and diverse pictures of a group of characters that are united by the whole neighborhood of Sleep.
The novel presents various stories from the nineties in one of the neighborhoods of the Gulf, and the psychological changes that its people experienced, realistic events, and a fateful war.
The heroes of the novel are a random sample of simple people who lived in the writer’s imagination. He tried to dissect their relationship with each other and also their relationships with others.
Sami Al-Khelaifi.
