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Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel / Ahmed Saadawi ; translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.
After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780143128793
- ISBN: 0143128795
- Physical Description: 281 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in Arabic by Al Kamel, 2013"--Title page verso. |
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| Subject: | Baghdad (Iraq) > Fiction. War fiction. |
| Genre: | Horror fiction. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Independence Branch | SADAW A (Text) | 33126022120624 | Core Collection | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster. - Baker & Taylor
Hadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city. Original. - Penguin Putnam
*International Booker Prize finalist*
âBrave and ingenious.â âThe New York Times
âGripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.â âPhil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
âExtraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.â âKevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadiâa scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local caféâcollects 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 heâs created a monster, one that needs human flesh to surviveâfirst from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. A prizewinning novel by âBaghdadâs new literary starâ (The New York Times), Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.