Frankenstein In Baghdad

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2019 A SATIRICAL REIMAGINING OF MARY SHELLEYS FRANKENSTEIN From the rubblestrewn streets of USoccupied 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 horrendouslooking flesheating monster that cannot be killed. At first its the guilty he attacks but soon its anyone who crosses his path... Frankenstein in Baghdad brilliantly captures the horror and black humour of a city at war.