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Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Tale of Fantastical Violence Entwined into the Horror of War

Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Tale of Fantastical Violence Entwined into the Horror of War

Ahmed Saadawi artfully tells the familiar horror story of Frankenstein’s monster in the backdrop of the US occupation of Baghdad. The city, now a dichotomy of disparate pieces since the war, is a stranger. Saadawi shows how life, for some,…