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Publisher Comments:

A provocative first collection of stories by the author of Koolaids

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 12-year-old boy, young man and woman of the streets, sister and sister, daughter and father, gay man and heterosexual, the quick and their dead.

Suffused by a yearning for what has been lost, these narratives are both experimental and traditional, humorous and disturbing, and confirm without doubt that Alemeddine is one of the most original and accomplished young writers to emerge in some time.

About the Author

Rabih Alemeddine, author of Koolaids, is a successful painter who has had gallery shows in cities throughout the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. He lives in San Francisco.

Table of Contents

The perv — The changing room — Duck — My grandmother, the grandmaster — Whore — Grace — A flight to Paris — Remembering Nasser.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780312200411
Subtitle:
Stories
Editor:
Denneny, Michael
Author:
Alameddine, Rabih
Author:
Denneny, Michael
Publisher:
Picador
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Short Stories (single author)
Subject:
Emigration and immigration
Subject:
Lebanon
Subject:
Lebanese Americans
Subject:
Lebanese Americans -- Fiction.
Subject:
Lebanese -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.
Subject:
Lebanese
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Publication Date:
19990702
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
8.59x5.90x.91 in. .83 lbs.

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