Frankenstein in Baghdad

by Ahmed Saadawi

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Pub Date 1 Feb 2018 | Archive Date 5 Jul 2018

Oneworld Publications | Oneworld

Literary Fiction

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Description

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi 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 give them a proper burial. But then the corpse goes missing, just as the city is hit by a wave of eerie murders, and reports start to stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. As the violence escalates, the Whatsitsname and the havoc it wreaks assume a magnitude far greater than anyone could have imagined.

Frankenstein in Baghdad is an extraordinary achievement, at once horrific and blackly humorous, which captures the surreal reality of a city at war.

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to...

Advance Praise

'A harrowing and affecting look at the day-to-day life of war-torn Iraq.' Publishers Weekly

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'Outrageously adroit...this haunting novel brazenly confronts the violence visited upon this country by those who did not call it home. A startling way to teach an old lesson: an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.' Kirkus