Frankenstein in BaghdadFrankenstein in Baghdad
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Current format, Book, 2018, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsAfter 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.
Hadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city. Original.
*Man Booker International 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.
Hadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city. Original.
*Man Booker International 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.
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