Frankenstein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi
Frankenstein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi "Gripping, darkly humorous . . . A devastating but essential read." -Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow BirdsFrom…
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Frankenstein in Baghdad - Ahmed Saadawi
"Gripping, darkly humorous . . . 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 café-collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. profound." -Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment"Extraordinary . . .
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. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. 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.Winner of the International Prize for Arabic FictionWinner of France's Grand Prize for Fantasy
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