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Koolaids

Rabih Alameddine

1998245 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1998
first published
  • 1998Picador USA · 245 pages · ENGISBN 9780312186937
  • 1998PICADOR · 251 pagesISBN 9780349110608
  • 1999Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780349110615
  • 2015Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated · ENGISBN 9780802190970
  • 2015Grove Press · 245 pages · ENGISBN 9780802124142
  • 2000St. Martin's PressISBN 9780312181208
  • 1999Picador · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780312206581
  • 2015Audible Studios on Brilliance AudioISBN 9781511320450

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.

How it reads

Worth knowing

ViolenceFrequent

When and where

ThemesWar

Content notes

  • Warmoderateunreviewed
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