Join us for the October session of our translated fiction bookclub where we'll be discussing Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi.

For the spookiest season of the year, we'll be reading this satirical reimagining of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright, Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad is said to brilliantly capture the horrors of Iraq under US occupation, through a blackly comic tale of a reanimated corpse running wild on the streets of a wartorn city.

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, Hadi collects body parts from the dead, which he stitches together to form a corpse.

He claims he does it to force the government to recognise the parts as real people, and give them a proper burial.

But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps across the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking, flesh-eating monster that cannot be killed. At first it's the guilty he attacks, but soon it's anyone who crosses his path...

Frankenstein in Baghdad brilliantly captures the horror and black humour of a city at war.

Join us in the secondhand department, on the basement floor, for tea, biscuits, and bookish conversation.

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