Frankenstein in Baghdad
A Novel
*Man Booker International Prize finalist*Brave 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 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 when the…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-312879-3
- EAN: 9780143128793
- Produktnummer: 22818488
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.1 cm x D3.0 cm 211 g
- Gewicht: 211
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Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. He is the first Iraqi to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction; he won in 2014 for Frankenstein in Baghdad, which also won France’s Grand Prize for Fantasy. In 2010 he was selected for Beirut39, as one of the 39 best Arab authors under the age of 39. He was born in 1973 in Baghdad, where he still lives.
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