Al-Attag first stitches the body parts together to create a single body, calling it "Whatsitsname", but when he leaves the body alone, the spirit of another bomb victim enters the corpse and brings it to life. invasion of Iraq, a junk-dealer named Hadi al-Attag collects the scattered body parts of bomb victims with the intention of giving them a proper burial. Since 2018 the book is also available as an audiobook at. The novel is a wartime spin on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus. The novel was translated into English by Jonathan Wright. It won the IPAF award (International Prize for Arabic Fiction) for 2014. Frankenstein in Baghdad ( Arabic: فرانكشتاين في بغداد) is an Arabic novel written by the Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi.
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