Frankenstein in Baghdad (Penguin LCC US)

"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 BirdsFrom 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 aby "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.Winner of the International Prize for Arabic FictionWinner of France's Grand Prize for Fantasy