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frasersimons 's review for:
Frankenstein in Baghdad
by Ahmed Saadawi
Shook.
How clever. What a fantastic concept and execution. You do notice a bit of weird translation stuff from time to time, but it is far from a bad translation, thankfully. The narrator does a good job with it as well.
I have not actually read Frankenstein, and I bet I’d have liked this even more had I. Even without, this is such a compelling and interesting book, so different than the approach of a western author, and subversive in satisfying, sometimes horrific, ways.
How clever. What a fantastic concept and execution. You do notice a bit of weird translation stuff from time to time, but it is far from a bad translation, thankfully. The narrator does a good job with it as well.
I have not actually read Frankenstein, and I bet I’d have liked this even more had I. Even without, this is such a compelling and interesting book, so different than the approach of a western author, and subversive in satisfying, sometimes horrific, ways.