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Koolaids

Koolaids

by Rabih Alameddine

Aids (disease), fictionFiction, gayMiddle east, fictionFiction, war & militaryLebanon, history, civil war, 1975-1990, fiction
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About this book

Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family during the eighties and nineties, Koolaids mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments. Clips, quips, vignettes and hallucinations, tragic news reports and hilarious short plays, conversations with both the quick and the dead, all shine their combined lights to reveal the way we experience life today.

Themes & subjects

Aids (disease), fictionFiction, gayMiddle east, fictionFiction, war & militaryLebanon, history, civil war, 1975-1990, fictionGay men, fiction

Setting

LebanonCivil War, 1975-1990

About the author

Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine

1959

Rabih Alameddine is a painter and the author of the National Book Award-winning *The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)*, as well as the novels *An Unnecessary Woman*; *I, the Divine*; *Koolaids*; *The Hakawati*; and the story collection, *The Perv*. He divides his time between San Francisco and Beirut.

Author

Rabih Alameddine

Pages

256

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

9

Language

English

Publisher

Picador

ISBN

9780802124142

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