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Saadawi, Ahmed 1973-

Frankenstein in Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi ; translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright. - London Oneworld 2018 - 272 pages 22 cm

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 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 realises he has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path.

An extraordinary achievement, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humour the surreal reality of a city at war.


Engelsk tekst

ISBN: 9781786070609 178607060X

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 0527205 BIBBI

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Dead--Fiction.
Monsters--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Baghdad (Iraq)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Horror fiction.
Black humor.
Arabic fiction
Satirical literature