*International Booker Prize finalist*
“Brave and ingenious.” —The New York Times “Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” –Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment “Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” –Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi–a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local café–collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realizes he’s created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive–first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. A prizewinning novel by “Baghdad’s new literary star” (The New York Times), Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.Author: Ahmed Saadawi
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 01/23/2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780143128793
Language: English
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