Frankenstein in Baghdad
[S.I.] : Penguin Publishing Group, 2018.
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A prizewinning novel of literary horror from war-torn Iraq?and the debut in English of "Baghdad's new literary star" ( The New York Times ) "Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound." ?Phil Klay, National Book Award?winning author of Redeployment "Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read." ?Kevin Powers, bestselling author of the National Book Award finalist The Yellow Birds From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi?a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local caf??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. An extraordinary achievement, at once horrific and blackly humorous, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the surreal reality of contemporary Baghdad.
Target Audience: 1040L
ISBN:
9780143128809
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