Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel

Author

Aḥmad Saʻdāwī

Call Number

• FICTION SADA (CEN)

Publication Information

New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]

Physical Description

281 pages ; 20 cm

Summary

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. Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.

Notes

"A Penguin original"--Page [4] of cover.

"Originally published in Arabic by Al Kamel, 2013"--Title page verso.