Indra Sinha
Paperback | Pages: 374 pages Rating: 3.88 | 4044 Users | 360 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Animal's People |
| ISBN: | 0743259203 (ISBN13: 9780743259200) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2007), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in South Asia and Europe (2008), RSL Encore Award Nominee (2009) |
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Profane, piercingly honest, and scathingly funny, Animal's People is the stunning tale of an unforgettable character: Animal, a young man whose back was twisted beyond repair in an industrial accident. It is a dark world, shot through with flashes of joy and lunacy."I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being..."
Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, his back twisted beyond repair by the catastrophic events of "that night" when a burning fog of poison smoke from the local factory blazed out over the town of Khaufpur, and the Apocalypse visited his slums. Now just turned seventeen and well schooled in street work, he lives by his wits, spending his days jamisponding (spying) on town officials and looking after the elderly nun who raised him, Ma Franci. His nights are spent fantasizing about Nisha, the girlfriend of the local resistance leader, and wondering what it must be like to get laid.
When Elli Barber, a young American doctor, arrives in Khaufpur to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk -- only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the Kampani -- Animal gets caught up in a web of intrigues, scams, and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage.
Profane, piercingly honest, and scathingly funny, Animal's People illuminates a dark world shot through with flashes of joy and lunacy. A stunning tale of an unforgettable character, it is an unflinching look at what it means to be human: the wounds that never heal and a spirit that will not be quenched.
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| Title | : | Animal's People |
| Author | : | Indra Sinha |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 374 pages |
| Published | : | 2007 by Simon & Schuster |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. India. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.88 From 4044 Users | 360 ReviewsNotice Based On Books Animal's People
I felt like I was being re-told a the same thread-bare story. Much of what was beautiful about this book felt unoriginal. Oh, look, the crippled narrator is falling in love with an idealistic girl. I bet you $5 he can't have her, but is too noble to do anything else about it, and then is resigned--cheerfully so--about her relationship to another man. What, no bet? Oops. I bet he rages against his fate and then gratefully accepts it. C'mon, bet me a measly $5. Hosw about $2?I bet our heart3,5I had some problems with this book for the first 100 pages because I couldn't get into the language, but I'm glad I continued because around page 200 I was totally hooked by the story. Why was the language that difficult to get into it? Because the narrator is Animal, an illiterate cripple of Khaufpur, that tells us his story. He has a sharp tongue, he is cheeky, he says what he thinks. But then I understood that it's thanks to this language, with no restrains, that the reader really gets
This book, based on the 1984 Bhopal disaster, is hilarious, sad, annoying, and refreshing all at the same time. Indra Sinha is a master with language, and finds a way to incorporate implicit and explicit meaning throughout the novel.Animal, who's spine got twisted from a chemical leak in his town, is a boy who walks on all fours. He can't remember his real name, and has been called "animal" since he was young. He deals with love, lust, friendship, anger, and even hallucinations throughout the
Don't worry if you begin this book and want to put it soon away. If you do, you will be quite justified since the topic of the Bhopal disaster in Khaufpur in 1984 is incredibly horrifying. You meet the main character (whose spine is so twisted as a result of the "Kampani" that he must go around on all fours) and you are immediately unsure that you want to take the Inferno-like trek through his hometown, where so much devastation and woe is omnipresent. If you decide to put it away, oh well, too
This book was hard for me to get into. It was one of those books that I was content to read while I was physically holding the open book on my lap. But as soon as I put it down to go do something else, I felt no compulsion whatsoever to pick it up again. Something about the way the characters spoke reminded me of Yoda (it was very silly) and the authors wordplay fell on deaf ears where I was concerned because I dont speak French, Hindi OR Urdu. Even with the assistance of the glossary at the
You know the button for five stars, labelled 'amazing". This is probably one of the few books that deserves it. The blurb doesn't say the half of it; the Union Carbide (now Dow Chemical, may God piss in their soup) debacle left hundreds of thousands maimed and killed...and far more born deformed...without restitution, since the victims (being unable to work) can't afford the quality of lawyers that are available to American multinational corporate ogres.The hero of this story is one such: a
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