Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial. Our main guy, Hadi, is a scavenger who hangs out at a local café and is known to be a little crazy, he collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a full corpse.

So, this novel takes place in in the streets of U.S. I honestly am so happy I went out on a limb and picked it up. 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.Ī 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. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial.īut 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. A devastating but essential read.” (Kevin Powers, best-selling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds)įrom 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.

“Gripping, darkly humorous.profound.” (Phil Klay, best-selling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment)

“Brave and ingenious.” ( The New York Times)

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi