Ahmed Saadawi
Autor(a) de Frankenstein in Baghdad
About the Author
Obras por Ahmed Saadawi
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Saʿdāwī, Aḥmad
أحمد سعداوي - Data de nascimento
- 1973
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Iraq
- Local de nascimento
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Locais de residência
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Ocupações
- novelist
poet
screenwriter
documentary film maker - Prémios e menções honrosas
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2014)
Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire (2017)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Diverse Horror (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 794
- Popularidade
- #32,083
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 33
- ISBN
- 24
- Línguas
- 8
Hadi, a trash merchant, gathers human body parts and puts them together to construct a corpse in the desolate streets of US-occupied Baghdad. His stated objective is for the government to acknowledge the pieces as humans and provide them with proper burial. When the corpse goes missing, a wave of weird murders sweeps the city, and stories of a horrifying-looking criminal who, despite being shot, cannot be killed flood in.
Despite the dark elements to this concept, Saadawi handles with a light touch. He creates some fantastic characters and captures with white-knuckle horror and black humour the surreal reality of a city at war.
I included this excellent book in my Best Middle Eastern Books to read.
https://quizlit.org/10-best-middle-eastern-books… (mais)