Frankenstein in Baghdad

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Saadawi, Ahmed
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Originally published in Arabic by Al Kamel, 2013"--Title page verso.
After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.

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Iraqi Sci-Fi submitted by Meginator on August 31, 2019, 8:57pm This book makes for interesting reading, not least because it offers an alternative perspective to U.S. intervention in Iraq that comes from someone who actually lived there. I couldn’t quite make sense of the framing device (it added little context to the overall narrative for me), but I did appreciate the book’s structure, which tells a range of stories from overlapping perspectives; this makes the novel particularly compelling for non-Iraqi readers, as the viewpoint characters come from several different backgrounds. The story itself is of the winding, indirect variety, which makes a lot of sense given the broader historical context, and the science fiction elements make for striking metaphors. I don’t think I would have read this if a book group hadn’t selected it, as I’m not generally a fan of less concrete fiction (I wouldn’t call this surrealist, precisely, but some aspects of it are pretty close), but I found it to be a very rewarding step outside of my usual comfort zone.