| Frankenstein in Baghdad Contributor(s): Saadawi, Ahmed (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143128795 ISBN-13: 9780143128793 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Horror - General - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: 892.737 |
| LCCN: 2017008182 |
| Lexile Measure: 1040 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.40 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: *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 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. 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. |