Frankenstein in Baghdad
A Novel
"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 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.
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Winner of France's Grand Prize for Fantasy
Product Details
- Paperback
- 288 pages
- ISBN
- 9780143128793
- Publisher
- Penguin Books (1/23/18)
- Dimensions
- 5.1 x 0.7 x 7.7 inches
- Tags
Tags
horror, iraq, middle east, scary season