LikedNow, I will say it wasn't one of my favorite reads, but it was so interesting and it left a lasting impression on me. Even after I finished reading it, I still randomly, periodically think about it.
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A Fig for All the Devils (2021)
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LikedAnd the reason I know that is because last year I read A Fig for All the Devils. And though that book was shocking and dark, it was also very heartwarming.
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MixedOkay, I did read A Fig for All the Devils, which was the very first spin that the wheel gave us. And this turned out to be a 3.5 out of five star.
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Ahmed SaadawiInternational Booker Prize finalist
Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction
“Brave and ingenious.” —The New York Times
“Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment
“Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds
From 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. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them 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 realizes he’s created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive—first from the guilty, and then from anyone in its path. A prizewinning novel by “Baghdad’s new literary star” (The New York Times), Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.
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