{"id":630,"date":"2008-05-01T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=630"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:02:57","slug":"animals-people-by-indra-sinha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/animals-people-by-indra-sinha\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal&#8217;s People by Indra Sinha [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/05\/Animals-People.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30122\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/05\/Animals-People.jpg\" alt=\"Animal's People\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>A 2007 Booker Prize nominee, Sinha\u2019s\u00a0third title is presented as a series of 23\u00a0directly transcribed tapes, spoken by a\u00a0creature called \u201cAnimal,\u201d who was once\u00a0human before an industrial chemical\u00a0catastrophe (inspired by the 1984 Bhopal, India poisonous gas leak in) twisted his limbs and\u00a0bones into unrecognizable form. Living\u00a0in the slums amidst survivors and supporters\u00a0trying to fight the giants that\u00a0caused the tragic disaster, 19-year-old\u00a0Animal narrates his tenuous existence, at\u00a0once desperate and foul, infused with\u00a0moments of joy and unexpected beauty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/tbr-2008-05-06-in-celebration-of-apa-heritage-month.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: A Survey of New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-631\" title=\"animals-people\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/animals-people.jpg\" alt=\"animals-people\" width=\"127\" height=\"193\" \/>A 2007 Booker Prize nominee, Sinha\u2019s third title is presented as a series of 23 directly transcribed tapes, spoken by a creature called \u201cAnimal,\u201d who was once human before an industrial chemical catastrophe (inspired by the 1984 Bhopal, India poisonous gas leak in) twisted his limbs and bones into unrecognizable form. Living in the slums amidst survivors and supporters trying to fight the giants that caused the tragic disaster, 19-year-old Animal narrates his tenuous existence, at once desperate and foul, infused with moments of joy and unexpected beauty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/tbr-2008-05-06-in-celebration-of-apa-heritage-month.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: A Survey of New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,52,6535],"tags":[3508,84,1968,6608,22,341,58,11,68,51,3509,13,39],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-indian","category-repost","tag-animals-people","tag-betrayal","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-civil-rights","tag-colonialism","tag-coming-of-age","tag-friendship","tag-haves-vs-have-nots","tag-identity","tag-indra-sinha","tag-love","tag-parent-child-relationship"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Animal&#039;s People by Indra Sinha [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/animals-people-by-indra-sinha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Animal&#039;s People by Indra Sinha [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A 2007 Booker Prize nominee, Sinha\u2019s third title is presented as a series of 23 directly transcribed tapes, spoken by a creature called \u201cAnimal,\u201d who was once human before an industrial chemical catastrophe (inspired by the 1984 Bhopal, India poisonous gas leak in) twisted his limbs and bones into unrecognizable form. 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