TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saadawi, Ahmed
TI  - Frankenstein in Baghdad
SN  - 9781786070609
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Oneworld
KW  - Dead
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Monsters
KW  - Baghdad (Iraq)
KW  - Horror fiction
KW  - Black humor
KW  - Arabic fiction
KW  - Satirical literature
N2  - 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
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