Frankenstein in Baghdad

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi 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 give them a 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 realises he has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path. An extraordinary achievement, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humour the surreal reality of a city at war.

De pe strazile imprastiate cu daramaturi din Bagdadul ocupat de SUA, scaparatorul Hadi colecteaza parti ale corpului uman si le imbina pentru a crea un cadavru. Obiectivul sau, sustine el, este ca guvernul sa recunoasca partile ca oameni si sa le ofere o inmormantare adecvata.