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    Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel
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    Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel
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    Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel

    Written by Ahmed Saadawi

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini and Kaleo Griffith

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    From 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.

    Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction
    Winner of France's Grand Prize for Fantasy

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 23, 2018
    ISBN9781524778613
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    Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel
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    Ahmed Saadawi

    Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. In 2010 he was selected for Beirut39, as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty, and in 2014 he became the first Iraqi to win the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction. This prize was awarded to Frankenstein in Baghdad, which also won Le Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire in 2017. He lives in Baghdad.

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