Frankenstein in Baghdad [electronic resource] : Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018
Saadawi, Ahmed2018
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION A SATIRICAL REIMAGINING OF MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEINFrom the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, Hadi collects body parts from the dead, which he stitches together to form a corpse.He claims he does it to force the government to recognise the parts as real people, and give them a proper burial.But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps across the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking, flesh-eating monster that cannot be killed. At first it's the guilty he attacks, but soon it's anyone who crosses his path...
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[Place of publication not identified] : Oneworld Publications, 2018
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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9781786070616
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English
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2823880
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