Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel

*Man Booker International Prize finalist*

€œBrave and ingenious.€ €"The New York Times

€œGripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.€ €"Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment

€œExtraordinary . . . 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 caf©€"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 €œBaghdad€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.