by Indra Sinha · Simon & Schuster Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780743259200
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«Animal's People» is the contemporary fiction novel by Indra Sinha, published by Simon & Schuster Ltd in paperback (384 pages, in English).
Animal, a young man who walks on all fours after the chemical disaster of «that night» in Khaufpur, narrates his life in the poor neighborhood amid the neighbors' struggle against the responsible company and the arrival of a doctor who opens a free clinic. With corrosive humor and no self-pity, it portrays resistance and dignity.
Shortlisted for the 2007 Booker Prize and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Best Book in South Asia and Europe). Inspired by the 1984 Bhopal chemical disaster.
Readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in a first-person narrative voice and social critique at its core.
Indra Sinha is a British writer of Indian and English descent. Animal's People, his most recent novel, was shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Europe and South Asia.
