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Name of the book:
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Author:
Ahmed Saadawi, Jonathan Wright (Translator)
Genre:
Horror, Fantasy
Publisher:
Penguin
Year of Publication:
2013
Number of Pages:
272
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi a scavenger and an oddball fixture at the local cafe 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 horrendous-looking criminals 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. An extraordinary achievement, at once horrific and blackly humorous, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the surreal reality of contemporary Baghdad."
Tags:
Horror, Retellings
Status:
Not available
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