*Man Booker International Prize finalist* 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 Birds 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.
