War baby

摘要

"I'M THE first true Iraqi citizen." Such A is the bold claim of the monster in Ahmed Saadawi's "Frankenstein in Baghdad". His misanthropic creator-an alcoholic, bitter junk-dealer-assembled him out of an ethnically diverse assortment of body parts, scavenged carefully from the remains of suicide-bombing victims. The Whatsitsname, as the creature is known, represents the "impossible mix that was never achieved in the past".