Frankenstein in Baghdad
by Ahmed Saadawi
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Pub Date Feb 01 2018 | Archive Date Jul 05 2018
Oneworld Publications | Oneworld
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Description
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 recognize the parts as people and give them a proper burial. But then the corpse goes missing, just as the city is hit by a wave of eerie murders, and reports start to stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. As the violence escalates, the Whatsitsname and the havoc it wreaks assume a magnitude far greater than anyone could have imagined.
Frankenstein in Baghdad is an extraordinary achievement, at once horrific and blackly humorous, which captures the surreal reality of a city at war.
Advance Praise
'A harrowing and affecting look at the day-to-day life of war-torn Iraq.' Publishers Weekly
'A harrowing and affecting look at the day-to-day life of war-torn Iraq.' Publishers Weekly
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'Outrageously adroit...this haunting novel brazenly confronts the violence visited upon this country by those who did not call it home. A startling way to teach an old lesson: an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.' Kirkus
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781786070609 |
| PRICE | £12.99 (GBP) |
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