The novel also deals with the fact that the residents of Bhopal have never had their day in court and that no company executive has ever stood trial for one of the world's worst industrial accidents. Countless thousands more suffered long-term injuries such as blindness, kidney and liver failure, cancer, and birth defects. The novel uses as its inspiration the horrific industrial accident that occurred in 1984 in Bhopal, India, when the American-owned Union Carbide pesticide plant leaked poisonous gases that killed thousands of sleeping people in a single night. But despite the fact that Animal - who wears his nickname as a badge of honor - can only see up to most people's navels, the boy sees and understands more than the people around him. Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, 'Animal's People' tells the story of a saucy, sharp-tongued 19-year-old boy, Animal, whose spine has been twisted so badly as the result of an industrial accident that he is reduced to walking on all fours. A lead character who walks on all fours and declares, 'I used to be human once.' Welcome to Indra Sinha's 'Animal's People' the strangest, most surreal novel you will read this year.

A former nun who, after the night of the 'accident,' jabbers away in her childhood French and awaits the apocalypse. Animalâs People, By Indra Sinha, Simon & Schuster, 384 pp., $25Īn aborted fetus seeking something resembling restitution.

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