Frankenstein in Baghdad

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, 2014; Winner of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (Foreign Novel), 2017; Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, 2018; Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2019

A satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein set in modern-day Baghdad, brilliantly catpuring the horror of a  city at war. 

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, Hadi collects body parts from the dead, which he stitches together to form a corpse. He claims he does it to force the government to recognise the parts as real people, and give them a proper burial.

But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps across the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking, flesh-eating monster that cannot be killed. At first it's the guilty he attacks, but soon it's anyone who crosses his path...