Cover of Ahmed Saadawi: Frankenstein in Baghdad

Ahmed Saadawi Frankenstein in Baghdad

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English

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Book information

Oneworld Publications

UK

2018

Paperback

288

Standard

292697

978-1-78607-397-6

1-78607-397-8

Iraq War

Annotation

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi 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 give them a 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 realises he has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path. An extraordinary achievement, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humour the surreal reality of a city at war.

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