Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel
Saadawi, Ahmad2018
Book
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi a scavenger and an oddball fixture at the local cafe 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 horrendous-looking criminals 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.
Main title:
Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel / Ahmed Saadawi ; translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.
Author:
Saadawi, Ahmad, authorWright, Jonathan, 1953-, translator
Imprint:
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, [2018]©2018
Collation:
281 pages ; 20 cm.
Awards:
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
ISBN:
9780143128793 (pbk)
Dewey class:
892.737
Language:
EnglishArabic
BRN:
337768