The Storyteller of Marrakesh

Hmmm. Two stars “it was ok”.
Never reached the levels promised by the quote on the cover “An enigmatic fable in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights”, the New York Times. Never even got close. The Thousand and One Nights (which, yes, I am still only 3/4 of the way through) is brilliant, contains multiple stories and stories within stories. This has a few side stories, but largely just rehashes the telling of a foreign couples single night in the Jemaa (market square) of Marrakesh. These are simply many people recollections of the events and the event leading up to the disappearance of the couple.
As the book alludes to at the very beginning, “there are no truths only opinions”. This leads into the various retellings, contradictory, differing in almost all the details.
I read other reviews, some people love this book, consider it magical, like the style, which emulates the oral tradition of storytelling. Others, myself included didn't find it came across as very authentic for is setting in Morocco. I guess this may be because it is an Indian author writing about Morocco, I don't know enough about the author to rule out his experience of Morocco.
Overall, I prefer a story that goes somewhere. For me this just circles round a bit, with some side tangents, comes back to the middle and fades away.