'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.'
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) for 2014 and a Man Booker International Prize Nominee for Shortlist for 2018.
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We're trying out discussion sections as an encouragement to keep those reading on a more similar timeline and perhaps foster more discussion. These are only softly recommended however and not required at all. Anyone can discuss any part or aspect of the selection at any time.
Recommended discussion timeframe starts-
The first quarter, pages 1-72: immediately
The second quarter, pages 73-144: Saturday the 17th of November
The third quarter, pages 145-216: Saturday the 24th of November
The fourth quarter, pages 217-288: Saturday the 1st of December
This is the MR Literary Club selection for November 2018. Everyone is welcome so feel free to start or join in the conversation at any time; the more the merrier!
