In war-torn Baghdad, Hadi, a junk dealer and storyteller, scours the wreckage for human remains—hoping to honor the dead by sewing their parts into a single body and demanding recognition for lives lost to chaos. But when his creation disappears, a string of brutal murders grips the city, each victim chosen according to a twisted sense of justice.
As rumors of an unkillable monster spread through occupied Baghdad, fear gives way to moral reckoning. Who deserves vengeance in a world where innocence and guilt blur beyond repair?
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and a finalist for the International Booker Prize, Frankenstein in Baghdad is a darkly funny, haunting allegory of war, guilt, and resurrection.
