Frankenstein In Baghdad

Service95 Recommends is the home of the books we love and reviews from our contributors. Frankenstein In Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi follows Hadi, a scavenger, in US occupied Baghdad, as he collects body parts in an attempt to make the government recognise assembled corpses as people, but when the corpse goes missing, murders occur. 

What We Say:  “Unveiling the atrocities of the Western occupation of Iraq through the genre of horror, Saadawi crafts an equally hilarious and devastating novel, capturing the absurdity and surrealism left behind by a war that never needed to happen” – Jamie Styles 

What They Say:  "A remarkable achievement, and one that, regrettably, is unlikely ever to lose its urgent relevancy. . . Surreal, visceral and mordant . . . An acute portrait of Middle Eastern sectarianism and geopolitical ineptitude, an absurdist morality fable, and a horror fantasy . . . Strange, violent, and wickedly funny" - Sarah Perry

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Jamie Styles is Editorial Assistant at Service95