Author: Ahmed Saadawi
Year: 2018
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Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary, Science fiction, War/Military
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9780143128793
0143128795 |
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*Man Booker International Prize finalist*
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.
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Winner of France's Grand Prize for Fantasy
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