Frankenstein in Baghdad (2018)
In war-torn Baghdad, a scavenger sews the remains of the dead into one body so that someone will bury them.
Make the creature out of a war’s victims, and it becomes a question about who gets justice.
You want the idea of the stitched-together body carried into a modern war, in a novel translated from Arabic.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: the body assembled from the dead, and the killings that follow when it walks away.
Changes: the place, the century and the maker. Hadi, a scavenger, wants the parts recognised and buried; the creature he made needs human flesh to keep going.
Whose story is it?
a whole neighbourhood’s.
How much time does it ask?
288 pages in Penguin Books’ paperback, translated from Arabic by Jonathan Wright.
Penguin Books paperback, 23 January 2018, 288 pages; translated by Jonathan Wright.
Where to find it
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More Frankensteins: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics) · Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Oxford World’s Classics) · The Norton Critical Edition, third edition