· Rabih Alameddine’s Koolaids, is a piece that has three predominant themes: AIDS, Lebanon as an identity, and a non-linear narrative that underscores the importance of remaining un-conforming to straightness in the form of narrative and male sexuality. The narrators include Mohammad, Samir, Samir’s mother, and Kurt.4/5(70). Koolaids - Kindle edition by Alameddine, Rabih. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Koolaids/5(25). The incendiary novel by National Book Award finalist Rabih Alameddine, about an Arab American poet, whose adult life in San Francisco spans the AIDS decades, and his hilarious and heartbreaking struggle to remember and forget the events of an astonishing life. Read more»Missing: Koolaids.
Koolaids: The Art of War is a novel by Rabih Alameddine, an author and painter who lives in both San Francisco and www.doorway.ru grew up in the Middle East, in Kuwait and www.doorway.ruhed in , Koolaids is Alameddine's first novel. The majority of the story takes place in San Francisco and Beirut, the sites of two very different "wars". Koolaids - Kindle edition by Alameddine, Rabih. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Koolaids. From the Hardcover www.doorway.ru ReviewAmazon Guest Review: Amy Tan I've been a huge fan of Rabih Alameddine's work for many years, beginning with his first novel, Koolaids: The Art of War. Rabih is not only a writer whose work I admire, he is also the writer with whom I have spent the most time talking about books, writers, and literary.
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. Following the publication of his critically acclaimed first novel, Koolaids, Rabih Alameddine offers a collection of stories that explores the experience of a number of Lebanese characters - men and women, gay and straight--whose lives have been blown apart by a disastrous civil war and the resulting international diaspora. Daring in style as well as content, these tales explore the relationships that anchor our hearts to the world -- father and son, grandson and grandmother, pedophile and. Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novels The Wrong End of the Telescope; The Angel of History; An Unnecessary Woman; The Hakawati; I, the Divine; and Koolaids. He also authored the story collection The Perv.
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