Ahmed Saadawi

Frankenstein in Baghdad

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION

'Extraordinary… A devastating but essential read.' Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds

'Gripping, darkly humorous…profound.' Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi 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 give them a 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 realises he has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive – first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path.

An extraordinary achievement, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humour the surreal reality of a city at war.
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289 printed pages
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Jonathan Wright
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Quotes

  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted2 years ago
    “Have you ever seen a golden piece of shit?” he asked. “Do you think it would be beautiful or just another piece of shit?”

    He didn’t know why he had asked this. But when he looked at her, he found that she was just a tree with cracked bark, another eucalyptus tree on Abu Nuwas Street.
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted2 years ago
    She was the only person who could give him hope and make him act a little mad—madness and hope that he greatly needed right now.
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted2 years ago
    He didn’t want to perish without understanding why he was dying and where he would go after death, so he clung to life, maybe even more than others, more than those who gave him their lives and parts
    of their bodies—just like that, out of fear.

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