International Booker Prize finalistWinner of the International Prize for Arabic FictionBrave and ingenious. —The New York TimesGripping, darkly humorous . . . profound. —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for RedeploymentExtraordinary . . . 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 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 contemporary Iraq. | Frankenstein In Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, Paperback | Indigo Chapters