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Frankenstein in Baghdad
فرانكشتاين في بغداد · Frankenstein fi Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi · 40 when first published
Novel · 288 pages · Speculative, War
Translated by Jonathan Wright
AI-generated summary:In Baghdad in 2005, junk dealer Hadi al-Attag stitches the body parts of bombing victims into one corpse. When a wandering soul enters it, the creature rises to take revenge on those who killed each of its parts.
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