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*Man Booker International Prize finalist*

“Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling creator and National Book Award winner for Redeployment

“Peculiar . . . A devastating but very important read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling creator 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 if the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-having a look criminal who, regardless that shot, can’t be killed. Hadi soon realizes he’s created a monster, one that needs human flesh to live to tell the tale—first from the guilty, and then from somebody 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 latest Iraq.

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction
Winner of France’s Grand Prize for Fantasy
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