A dazzling literary debut, KOOLAIDS shatters the dimension of time and mimes the chaos of contemporary existence as it details the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war on a circle of family and friends. In clips, quips, memories and hallucinations, tragic news reports and hilarious[...]

Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage'. Every year, she translates a new favourite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has t[...]

One of the Middle East's most celebrated voices, Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller, "The Hakawati," with an enchanting story of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old "unnecessary" woman. Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books.[...]

Osamas bestefar var en hakawati, en historieforteller, og han var en av de beste. Osama har vendt tilbake til Beirut fra USA fordi faren ligger for døden. Når familien samles rundt sykesengen gjenoppdager de fortellingene. Denne utgaven er en lydbok i MP3-format. Den kan kun spilles i CD-spillere [...]

En overdådig og sprudlende roman der tager os med til det gamle Egyptens flimrende ørken så vel som 1990’ernes krigshærgede Libanon. Det handler om kærlighed, venskab, religion, sex, krig og bedrag. Skæbner væves sammen på kryds og tværs til en nuanceret mosaik, som giver et fascineren[...]