Frankenstein in Baghdad (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143128793)

*International Booker Prize finalist*

"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 Birds

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.

Author: Ahmed Saadawi
ISBN-10: 0143128795
ISBN-13: 9780143128793
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2018
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 10/09/2017
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2017
Library Journal 11/01/2017
Booklist 12/01/2017 pg. 40
Shelf Awareness 02/16/2018