Frankenstein in Baghdad

( Arabic - Frankishtayn fi Baghdad ( فرانكشتاين في بغداد ) - 2016 )

novel by Ahmed Saadawi

translated by Jonathan Wright

Published: Penguin Books - trade paperback - 2018 ( US )
ISBN: 0143128795 / 9780143128793

Oneworld Publications - trade paperback - 2018 ( UK )
ISBN: 178607060X / 9781786070609

Penguin Books - e-book - 2018
eISBN: 0143128809 / 9780143128809
ASIN: B07ZVZQP48

QUEST from W. F. Howes Ltd - audiobook - 2018
ASIN: B07HY6F8CK


synopsis
From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognise the parts as people and give them a proper burial. However, 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 realises he has created a monster: one that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path.

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