{"product_id":"frankenstein-in-baghdad-by-ahmed-saadawi","title":"'Frankenstein in Baghdad' by Ahmed Saadawi","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"527\"\u003eIn US-occupied Baghdad, Hadi, a junk dealer and neighbourhood storyteller, begins collecting body parts from bombing sites and stitching them together into a single corpse.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"45\" data-end=\"527\"\u003eAt first, it is partly an act of grotesque mourning: an attempt to give the scattered dead one body, one name, one proper burial. But the stitched-together body disappears, and soon rumours spread through the city of a creature moving through Baghdad, hunting those responsible for the violence that made him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"1160\"\u003eThe creature, known as “Whatsitsname,” is made from victims of different sects, classes, histories, and allegiances, which means his revenge cannot remain clean for long. Every body part demands justice; every act of justice creates new victims; the moral ledger becomes a butcher’s apron. Around him, Saadawi builds a teeming Baghdad of journalists, widows, opportunists, officials, hotel workers, astrologers, soldiers, and frightened neighbours, all trying to survive inside a city where death has become routine but never ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1162\" data-end=\"1475\"\u003eWinner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International, this is a sharp, strange, blackly comic novel about war, occupation, revenge and superstition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1477\" data-end=\"1738\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOneworld Publications trade paperback, 2018 reprint; translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright. Good second-hand condition with some visible cover marking, edge wear and light signs of handling; internally clean and readable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45616179904595,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker_6.png?v=1780898917","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/frankenstein-in-baghdad-by-ahmed-saadawi","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}