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Frankenstein in Baghdad

Aḥmad Saʿdāwī

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi 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 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 has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path.

GenresBaghdad (Iraq)FictionHorror tales

272 pages

English edition · First published 2018 by Oneworld · ISBN 9781786073976

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