A satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein set in war-torn Baghdad

Ausgezeichnet: International Prize for Arabic Fiction, 2014.Ausgezeichnet: Le Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire, 2017.Nominiert: Man Booker International Prize, 2018.Ausgezeichnet: Golden Award (Kitschies), 2019.Nominiert: Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, 2019.Nominiert: Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2019

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Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. In 2010 he was selected for Beirut39, as one of the thirty-nine best Arab authors under the age of forty, and in 2014 he became the first Iraqi to win the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction. This prize was awarded to Frankenstein in Baghdad, which also won Le Grand Prix de L'Imaginaire in 2017. **He lives in Baghdad.

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A prize-winning horror novel from war-torn Iraq. Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse for the government to realise these parts are people who deserve a proper burial. It isn't long before he realises he's created a monster who cannot be killed and survives on human flesh. Darkly humorous, it captures the surreal reality of Baghdad today.

Zusammenfassung
A satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein set in war-torn Baghdad