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Frankenstein in Baghdad

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 281
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-14-312879-3
  • EAN
  • 9780143128793
  • Characters
  • محمود السوادي, الشسمه, هادي العتاگ, إيليشوا, الساحر
  • Genres
  • fiction, horror, novels, fantasy, war, literature, contemporary
  • Release date
  • 2018