Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi

 

Last year, I read and reviewed Chicano Frankenstein by Daniel A Olivas. Another blogger, CyberKitten, read my review of Chicano Frankenstein and recommended I read Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi. Since I enjoyed reading Chicano Frankenstein so much, I decided to listen to the unabridged audio version of  Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, which is well narrated by Edoardo Ballerini and Kaleo Griffith.

Thank you, CyberKitten, I enjoyed listening to Frankenstein in Baghdad. It is a unique read with a setting in Iraq. It's filled with colorful characters and an engaging storyline. The narration is phenomenal as well. If you are interested in reading retellings of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, then Frankenstein in Baghdad may be right up your alley.

Below is the publisher's summary for Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, which I discovered on Chirp's website:

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.

I am giving  Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi a rating of 3 stars out of 5 stars.

Until my next post, happy reading!