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. На усыпанных щебнем улицах Багдада, оккупированного США, чудак мусорщик Хади собирает разбросанные взрывом части человеческих тел и сшивает их вместе, чтобы похоронить должным образом. Но собранное тело пропадает - а город захлестывает волна жутких убийств и поток сообщений об ужасном убийце, которого не берут пули. Вскоре Хади понимает, что создал монстра, которому нужна человеческая плоть. Сначала монстр нападает на тех, кого считает ответственными за взрыв, а затем на всех, кто окажется на его пути. Отмеченный наградами роман "новой багдадской литературной звезды" (The New York Times), наполненный ужасом и черным юмором, описывает сюрреалистическую реальность современного Ирака. В книге представлен оригинальный текст на английском языке.
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi-a scavenger and an oddball fixture at a local caf-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 hes 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 Baghdads new literary star (The New York Times), Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq. Na usypannykh shchebnem ulitsakh Bagdada, okkupirovannogo SSHA, chudak musorshchik KHadi sobiraet razbrosannye vzryvom chasti chelovecheskikh tel i sshivaet ikh vmeste, chtoby pokhoronit dolzhnym obrazom. No sobrannoe telo propadaet - a gorod zakhlestyvaet volna zhutkikh ubiystv i potok soobshcheniy ob uzhasnom ubiytse, kotorogo ne berut puli. Vskore KHadi ponimaet, chto sozdal monstra, kotoromu nuzhna chelovecheskaya plot. Snachala monstr napadaet na tekh, kogo schitaet otvetstvennymi za vzryv, a zatem na vsekh, kto okazhetsya na ego puti. Otmechennyy nagradami roman "novoy bagdadskoy literaturnoy zvezdy" (The New York Times), napolnennyy uzhasom i chernym yumorom, opisyvaet syurrealisticheskuyu realnost sovremennogo Iraka. V knige predstavlen originalnyy tekst na angliyskom yazyke.
