About this title: '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, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his ...
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009-03-17
ISBN-13:9781416578796ISBN:141657879X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416578789ISBN:1416578781
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009-03-17
ISBN-13:9781416578796ISBN:141657879X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2008-03-04
ISBN-13:9781416578789ISBN:1416578781
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (UK)
Date Published: 2007-03
ISBN-13:9780743259200ISBN:0743259203
Description: Very Good. This copy is in very good condition. No visible markings, highlights, underlining, tears to text. Tight spine. Copy has a slight bend. No Dust Jacket. Soft Cover has light/minimum, shelf/edge wear. Very interesting copy, worth having at an affordable price. (L1-48) read more
"This book was hard for me to get into. Animal's People is a clever book but it was one of those books that, while I was content to read it while I was physically holding the open book on my lap, as soon as I put it down to go do something else, I felt no compulsion whatsoever to pick it up again. However, despite effectively tackling an important issue-the Bhopal chemical disaster of 1984-Animal's People is perhaps too clever for its own good. Unless you have expert knowledge of Urdu, Hindi and French in addition to English subtleties will be missed. Even with the assistance of the glossary at the back of the book to help define many of the non-English words, I felt like I'd been left out of some clever joke.
To a big extent, Animal is the kind of character you can't help but pity. However, by the end of the book, Animal makes some surprising decisions and stands up for himself in an honorable way and my opinion of him changed significantly by the end of the book once I realized that he had grown into a strong, intelligent young man. His character shows that the adaptability of human beings is amazing.
Warning!!! In good consciousness, I have to warn that if you are sensitive to hardcore swearing and reading about a young man's obsessive desire to get laid for the first time, this might not be the book for you. Animal is a sexually vulgar character who swears freely and openly narrates his opinions about masturbation, climbing trees to spy on his nude, female friends and trying to cope with his seemingly constant struggle of getting unwanted erections in public places. Several of the characters engage in repeated conversations about the unusual size of Animal's penis and how unfortunate it is that such a magnificent tool is attached to someone no woman would want to sleep with. While I largely stopped noticing these things (as Animal matures, the foul language tapers off) it is definitely there.
I thought, this novel took a bizarre turn in the third act and rushed to an unsatisfying ending that seemed out of place with what came before. I can't think of anyone off the top of my head who absolutely needs to rush out and read this book immediately but I'm glad a read it. Recommended, but certainly not everyone's cup of chai."
"This book features an unusual narrator--"Animal," a young man who was badly injured in an industrial accident and now walks on all fours. Animal lives in extreme poverty in an Indian slum, and at first seems to be rather an off-putting character. He's profane, he's a bit mad, he rails against the universe. But as I read, I grew to love him. His hopes and desires resonate, as do his faults and his pettiness. The book is based on an actual incident in which a Union Carbide factory accident decimated a small town, and the company fought making redress. Very, very good book. PS The narrator speaks in a patois that took me a little while to figure out. For example, Kampani means "company." Stick with it--it all makes sense after a bit. (It reminds me of The God of Small Things in this way)"
"A piece of fiction based on the Union Carbide Gas leak in Bhopal India based around the main character of Animal, so called as he walks around on all fours as a result of being crippled by the gas poison effect.
Brilliant. Highly original in use of language and scope. Animal is a highly cocky but likeable character who negotiates the slums of the fictional Khaufpur sometimes with verve and sometimes melancholia but always with his libido well intact! We meet a group of people fighting for compensation from the 'Kampani' lead by the greatly respected Zafar and his girlfriend Nisha with whom Animal is secretely in love. I picked this up at the Manly second hand bookstore as it was on their shelf they use to promote their best books not because I'd previously heard about it. Very glad I chose this one."
"Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Sinha's prose hits you like a punch in the face. Although our book club was not enamored with the story (primarily because of the lead character's in-your-face attitude), all members agreed that it was well worth reading. Synopsis review from the Times Literary Supplement: "It is language that is the real hero of this Man Booker-shortlisted novel. The polyglot Animal communicates in an exhilarating torrent of words, a riddling rush of English, French, Hindi, poems, puns, scatologically infected taunts and curses. His own uncanny ability to hear the thoughts of all creatures gives speech to insects, unborn fetuses and the dead. The effect is glorious. If the status of our humanity depends on our ability to communicate, then Animal's tongue belies the name he bears. At once playful, pitiless and moving, Animal's People stands as a testament to the courage and resilience of India's poor."
Erotic misery and fear drove Anne Enright's divided Dublin clan in the family drama that pipped McEwan to the Man Booker: The Gathering (Cape, £12.99). Discomfiting comedy and nimble, flab-free prose render her book far more of a dark delight than its bleak reputation would allow. But another Man Booker-shortlisted novel trumped even Enright in the art of plucking literary pleasure out of human pain. Indra Sinha's astonishing Animal's People (Simon & Schuster, £11.99) gave the Bhopal gas disaster of 1984 the artistic monument it has long deserved through the salty, scabrous monologue of the survivor-hero "Animal". Boyd Tonkin, The Independent"
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