Book Cellar Dubai: The Queue

Vladimir Sorokin’s 1983 has been described as “a bizarrely funny saga of a quintessential Russian institution, the interminably long line”. Perhaps you might go for “avant-garde” rather than bizarre; the book is solely snatches of dialogue, the voices of people in the queue (the idea is that the reader should feel that they are part of the queue themselves). Another interesting choice from Dubai’s most interesting book club …