Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel / Ahmed Saadawi ; translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Arabic Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 281 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780143128793
- 0143128795
- Frānkshtāyin fī Baghdād. English
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Main Library | Fiction | Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad | Available | 33111008694917 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
* 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.
"Originally published in Arabic by Al Kamel, 2013."--Title page verso.
After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.