Frankenstein in Baghdad

Name: Frankenstein in Baghdad
ISBN: 9780143128793

by Ahmed Saadawi

International Prize · 2014 · Winner

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Dar al-JamalSeptember 1, 2013Literary Fiction Science Fiction & FantasyISBN 9780143128793

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
International Prize for Arabic Fiction	2014	Winner

About This Book

Set in post-invasion Baghdad, a junk dealer assembles a creature from the body parts of bombing victims; the creature comes to life seeking vengeance, becoming a metaphor for the cycle of sectarian violence consuming Iraqi society.

About the Author

Ahmed SaadawiIQ

Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter, and visual artist born in 1973 in Baghdad. He is one of the most important voices in contemporary Iraqi and Arab literature, known for fiction that engages directly with the violence and trauma of post-invasion Iraq with both realism and dark fantasy. He continues to live and work in Baghdad. Read more →