TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Frankenstein in Baghdad</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 585 LP - 585 DO - 10.3399/bjgp18X700073 VL - 68 IS - 677 AU - Tony Nixon Y1 - 2018/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/68/677/585.1.abstract N2 - Saadawi Ahmed, trans. Wright Jonathan Oneworld Publications, 2018, PB, 288pp, £7.48, 978-1786070609Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. It is set in Iraq’s capital in 2005, then occupied by the US military, at a time of escalating violence. I felt that this novel is a cousin to Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Here too a city is beset by the forces … ER -