Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel

ISBN: 0143128795

Author: Saadawi, Ahmed

Condition: New

International Booker Prize finalistWinner 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 BirdsFrom the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi-a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local caf?-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.