num_pages: 281
description: From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local caf--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.
language: English
title: Frankenstein in Baghdad
publisher: Penguin Books