
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
2017

Ahmed Saadawi · 2013
288 pages
In occupied Baghdad a junk dealer stitches a corpse together from the body parts of the dead, and a wandering soul animates it. The creature walks the streets demanding justice for the people it was made from, and soon needs fresh parts to keep going. A bleak, darkly funny story of war, guilt and monstrousness.
Sympathetic Monster, Magical Realism, Satire, War Fiction, Body Horror, Morally Grey Character