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Frankenstein in Baghdad
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Frankenstein in Baghdad

Ahmed Saadawi

2018
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Ahmed Saadawi, Booker winner. A monster from war's dead.

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The first Iraqi to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF, 2014). Frankenstein in Baghdad stitches a monster from the bodies of bombing victims — a fierce metaphor for post-invasion Iraq.

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