Frankenstein in Baghdad: Ahmed Saadawi

A satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley`s Frankenstein

From 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…

Frankenstein in Baghdad brilliantly captures the horror and black humour of a city at war.