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Frankenstein in Baghdad

Frankenstein in Baghdad

Saadawi, Ahmed

Paperback

HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0143128795
ISBN13: 9780143128793
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: Jan 23 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
International Booker Prize finalist

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

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.

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