Animal's People
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781416578789 (1416578781)
Publish date: March 4th 2008
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages no: 374
Edition language: English
Category:
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
India,
Asian Literature,
Indian Literature,
Asia,
International
I have been reading a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction of late. This book easily falls into that category, even though it takes place deep within our world a few years ago, for this is a story about the effects of the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster. And really if anything is a post-apocalyptic world i...
Meh. It could be I was missing what put this book on the Booker shortlist, but I was finally bored with it. I ditched it at 250 pages, so I certainly tried to like . . .
Very interesting book about the Bhopal Union Carbide disaster. The main character is a boy who was born a few days after the chemical leak. His body becomes deformed and he is only able to move by walking on his hands and feet like an animal. This book presents such a vivid image of poverty and d...
2007 Booker Prize long list
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