Frankenstein in Baghdad

A Novel

von Ahmed Saadawi

288 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

International Booker Prize finalistWinner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction“Brave and ingenious.” —The New York Times“Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment“Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow BirdsFrom 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. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them 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 realizes he’s created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive—first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. A 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.

• Themen: Belletristik Erzählerische Themen, Stoffe, Motive Krieg und Konflikte
• ISBN: 9780143128793
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2018
• Größe: 195 x 128 mm
• Verlag: Penguin LLC US
• Übersetzung: Jonathan Wright