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Frankenstein in Baghdad

Ahmed Saadawi

3.59/5 (8834 ratings)

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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:

Pages:: 281 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Penguin Books

Edition:: Translation

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0143128795

ISBN13:: 9780143128793

kindle Asin:: B01HCGYY7E

Frankenstein in Baghdad

Ahmed Saadawi

3.59/5 (8834 ratings)

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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:

Pages:: 281 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: Penguin Books

Edition:: Translation

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0143128795

ISBN13:: 9780143128793

kindle Asin:: B01HCGYY7E

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