Frankenstein in Baghdad by Saadawi, Ahmed
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Saadawi, Ahmed

Frankenstein in Baghdad

International Booker Prize finalist Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction "Brave and ingenious." --The New...
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Author: Ahmed Saadawi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Frankenstein in Baghdad by Saadawi, Ahmed

Frankenstein in Baghdad

$64.99 $36.00
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Saadawi, Ahmed

Frankenstein in Baghdad

$64.99 $36.00
Author: Ahmed Saadawi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Ahmed Saadawi
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 01/23/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780143128793


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 10/09/2017
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2017
Library Journal 11/01/2017
Booklist 12/01/2017 pg. 40
Shelf Awareness 02/16/2018

About the Author
Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. He is the first Iraqi to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction; he won in 2014 for Frankenstein in Baghdad, which also won France's Grand Prize for Fantasy. In 2010 he was selected for Beirut39, as one of the 39 best Arab authors under the age of 39. He was born in 1973 in Baghdad, where he still lives.
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