Frankenstein in Baghdad
Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad2018
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From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, Hadi - a scavenger and an oddball fixture at the local café - collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognise the parts as people and to 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's created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive. As the violence escalates and Hadi's acquaintances - a journalist, a government worker, a lonely older woman - become involved, the Whatsitsname and the havoc it wreaks assume a magnitude far greater than anyone could have imagined. An extraordinary achievement, at once horrific and blackly humorous, 'Frankenstein in Baghdad' captures the surreal reality of contemporary Baghdad.
Main title:
Frankenstein in Baghdad / Ahmed Saadawi ; translated by Jonathan Wright.
Author:
Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad, authorWright, Jonathan, 1953-, translator
Imprint:
London : Oneworld, 2018.
Collation:
1 volume ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Arabic.
ISBN:
9781786070609 (pbk. :)
Local class:
Fict
Language:
EnglishArabic
BRN:
1929254
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