✨Frankenstein In Baghdad

Frankenstein in Baghdad SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION 'E A devastating but essential read.' Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds'Gripping, darkly ' Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for RedeploymentFrom 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 .