International Booker Prize finalist

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

"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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• Publication Date: January 23, 2018
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• Print Length: 287 Pages
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