Frankenstein in Baghdad : SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018

• Format: Paperback/softback 288 pages
• Publisher: OneWorld Publications
• Imprint: OneWorld Publications
• ISBN: 9781786073976
• Published: 6 Sept 2018
• Classifications: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), War and combat fiction, Horror & ghost stories
• Weight: 252g
• Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 22 (mm)
• Pub. Country: United Kingdom

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTIONWINNER OF THE KITSCHIES GOLDEN TENTACLE AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2019 A SATIRICAL REIMAGINING OF MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN SET IN MODERN-DAY BAGHDAD, BRILLIANTLY CAPTURING THE HORROR OF A CITY AT WARFrom the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied 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 horrendous-looking, flesh-eating monster that cannot be killed. At first it’s the guilty he attacks, but soon it’s anyone who crosses his path… ‘A remarkable book’ Observer * ‘Brave and ingenious.’ The New York Times