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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Awesome book! Visit the website for the pretend town of Khaufpur. It is so realistic. (  )jshullih | Nov 25, 2008 |   Fantastic. The voice of the protagonist develops out of David Copperfield, is honed on Holden Caulfield, and is forged in the terror and corporate slaughter of the Union Carbide gas leak disaster in Bhopal, India, in 1984. Vulgar, funny, tragic, sad, conscious. (  )scriveners_lot | Nov 15, 2008 | It's a wonder I was able to finish it. So many books like this I would have immediatley abandoned after a 100 pages or so. I guess then it says something for the book ( or maybe me, more tolerant with age ) ) that I was able to claw my way to the end. The characters & story line are shallow and very uninvolving. A two star review claims it was reminiscent of 'A Fine Balance' , if only it was so. I suggest you forgo this attempt and read or reread 'A Fine Balance.' (  )SulfurDog | Aug 13, 2008 | Not nearly as depressing as I thought it would be from the description, etc. Actually, I quite enjoyed it--had no desire to read it at all but it was hanging around the house. Took me a while to get the "namispond"/"jamispond" thing. (  )hairball | Jul 18, 2008 | Whilst the story within this book is gripping, it is the picture of the people and their lives, painted by the narrator, that I found more enthralling. Their world was brought alive amid the pages; I could feel the heat and the dust and the hunger. A wonderful portrayal of an overlooked world. ( )feralchicken | Jul 9, 2008 | 0.008 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743259203, Paperback)Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophicresult of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid. When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town 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 plunges into a web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage. Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity, Animal's account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy - from the very first page all the way to the story's explosive ending. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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