Frankenstein in Baghdad - Winner of Le Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire 2017. Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction. A Novel
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| Verlag | Penguin US |
| Auflage | 2018 |
| Seiten | 288 |
| Format | 13 x 19,5 x 2 cm |
| Gewicht | 210 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0143128795 |
| EAN | 9780143128793 |
| Bestell-Nr | 14312879EA |
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.
