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Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, this is a satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's }Frankenstein{, set in war-torn Baghdad, published 200 years after the original novel. Captures the horror and surreal reality of a city at war, with black humour. Translated by Jonathan White

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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.

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