Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel

<b>*Man Booker International Prize finalist*<br><br>“Brave and ingenious.” —<b><i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>“Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for <i>Redeployment</i></b><br><br><b>“Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for <i>The Yellow Birds</i></b><br><br> 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. A prizewinning novel by “Baghdad’s new literary star” (<i>The New York Times</i>), <i>Frankenstein in Baghdad</i> captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.<br><br><b>Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction</b><br><b>Winner of France’s Grand Prize for Fantasy</b>