Dye, and Other Stories — Omar Sabbagh

Omar Sabbagh expertly draws in his readers with prose that is as intense, enchanting and witty as it is philosophical. The style can be flamboyant, pushing every word to work on several levels and making us wonder about the fundamental nature of our reality, but the prose always remains inviting, enticing us to think and empathise deeply. Sabbagh is a daring and intelligent writer, sharp-eyed and quick-tongued, yet always humane and compassionate. Dye and Other Stories will challenge and delight in equal measure."
Dr Jan Fortune, Editor, Cinnamon Press

"In Omar Sabbaghâs Dye and Other Stories, we have a voice that is intelligent, opinionated and persuasiveâwritten from the point of view of a âprivileged inhabitantâ. Straddling both fiction and creative non-fiction genres, the pieces here travel vertically, horizontally and spatially in three-dimensions, mapping several geographical terrainsâspaces that are real and unreal, factual and imaginativeâin a prose style that is inimitably the authorâs very own."
Sudeep Sen, author of EroText (Vintage: Penguin Random House) and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (editor)