Name: Frankenstein in Baghdad : SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 by Saadawi, Ahmed
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Frankenstein in Baghdad : SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 by Saadawi, Ahmed

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Author: Saadawi, Ahmed

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 6 September 2018 by Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 288 pages
128 x 197 x 22 | 254g

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONA SATIRICAL REIMAGINING OF MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEINSET IN MODERN-DAY BAGHDAD,BRILLIANTLY CAPTURING THE HORROR OF A CITY AT WARFrom the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, Hadi collects body parts from the dead, which he stitches together to form a corpse.

He claims he does it to force the government to recognise the parts as real people, and give them a proper burial.

But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps across the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking, flesh-eating monster that cannot be killed. At first it’s the guilty he attacks, but soon it’s anyone who crosses his path…

‘A remarkable bo

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Frankenstein in Baghdad : SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018 by Saadawi, Ahmed