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. 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. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial.
A devastating but essential read.” -Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birdsįrom 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. profound.” -Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
“Brave and ingenious.” - The New York Times *Man Booker International Prize finalist*
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