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Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel / Ahmed Saadawi ; translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright.

by Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad.

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Penguin Books, c2018.

Monsters -- Fiction.

War -- Fiction.

Baghdad (Iraq) -- Fiction.

9780143128793 (trade pbk.)

0143128795 (trade pbk.)

Frānkshtāyin fī Baghdād. English.

281 p. ; 20 cm.

"Originally published in Arabic by Al Kamel, 2013."--T.p. verso.

In English, translated from the Arabic.

"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. With white-knuckle horror and black humor, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq."--Publisher.

Winner International Prize for Arabic Fiction, 2014.

Arabic fiction -- Translations into English.

Horror fiction.

Black humor (Literature)

Wright, Jonathan, 1953-

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