Frankenstein in Baghdad - A Novel

Ahmed Saadawi

Penguin Books

2018

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780143128793

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 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.

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5 (Perfeito)

Que livro incrível!! Eu sou muito apaixonada pela história original e quando eu achei essa inspiração fiquei muito feliz.
É um livro muito triste e que infelizmente é muito real, os personagens são incrivelmente humanos e o livro traz críticas e pensamentos muito importantes.