Frankenstein in Baghdad a novel
"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. Bu...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Arabic |
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New York, New York :
Penguin Books,
[2018]
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| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | Translation of: Frānkshtāyin fī Baghdād. |
| Physical Description: | 281 pages ; 20 cm |
| Awards: | Winner, International Prize for Arabic Fiction. |
| ISBN: | 9780143128793 0143128795 |
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