Frankenstein in Bagdad
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"Frankenstein in Baghdad" is a novel by Iraqi novelist Ahmed Saadawi. Baghdad is in constant conflict, with attacks happening almost every day. The story of this book unfolds against this background. The author uses the classic character from Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" to tell a strange story that happened in Iraq. After the Iraq War in 2005, when Baghdad was occupied and taken over by the US military, Hadi, a scavenger, collected the remains of the bomb victims and re-sewed them into a new body. When a lonely wandering soul settles into this body, a new life is born. Hardy calls him "Jane Doe," the authorities consider him a "criminal number one," and others call him "Frankenstein." Frankenstein began a war of revenge against those who had killed him or blown him to pieces, and the nameless victim became a nameless perpetrator...
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