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Frankenstein in Baghdad

A Novel | Ahmed Saadawi

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2018 Penguin Publishing Group
288 Seiten
Sprache: English
ISBN: 978-0-14-312880-9

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Man Booker International Prize finalist ',Brave and ingenious.' The New York Times',Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.' Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner forRedeployment',Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.' Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist forThe Yellow Birds From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadia scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local cafecollects 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 survivefirst 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.Winner of the International Prize for Arabic FictionWinner of France's Grand Prize for Fantasy

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