I picked it up to read for the Year of the Asian Reading Challenge , since the Middle East is all-too-often neglected in regional groupings like that. I also try to read translated books on occasion, in an effort to diversify my reading. So this hit a number of my interests โ I wish I had actually liked the book more! But it bounces around between several viewpoints. And I very much dislike unreliable narrators, so that alone is enough to make me dislike the book.
If you like ambiguous narratives and vigilante stories, however, you might enjoy this, and the writing style itself was quite engrossing. From the rubble-strewn streets of U. His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and to give them proper burial.
But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city. With white-knuckle horror and black humor, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq. The Odyssey by Homer being one of them.
For being a page poem, it flowed incredibly well and kept my attention the entire way through. The Odyssey is the story of Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, who went away to fight in the wars in Troy caused by the abduction of Helen.
This story takes place after the war is over, when everyone โ or almost everyone โ has gone home. His queen still waits for him, and puts off her suitors in a variety of ways.
