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****International** Booker Prize finalist Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction “Brave and ingenious.” — ***The New York Times*** “Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for *Redeployment* ** **“Extraordinary . . . 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 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.