Koolaids
1998
First Published
4.05
Average Rating
256
Number of Pages
Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family, "Koolaids" tells the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments of time, each of which goes off along its own trajectory and immediately disappears. 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 in this ambitious novel.
Avg Rating
4.05
Number of Ratings
840
5 STARS
37%
4 STARS
39%
3 STARS
18%
2 STARS
5%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Rabih Alameddine
Author · 10 books
Rabih Alameddine (Arabic: ربيع علم الدين) was born in Amman, Jordan to Lebanese parents, and grew up in Kuwait and Lebanon. He was educated in England and America, and has an engineering degree from UCLA and an MBA from the University of San Francisco.
