TY - BOOK AU - Sinha,Indra TI - Animal's people SN - 9780743259200 AV - PR9499.4.S56 A55 2008 U1 - 823.92 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984 KW - Fiction KW - Accident victims KW - Slums KW - India KW - Americans KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century KW - Humorous fiction KW - gsafd N2 - Ever since That Night, the residents of Khaufpur have lived a perilous existence. Their world is poisoned. Nobody has received compensation or help for the chemical leak, least of all Animal, as he is known, whose spine twisted at a young age, leaving him to walk on all fours. Though he inhabits a dark kind of half-life, he knows what love is. He has long harboured feelings for his friend Nisha but since she is enamoured of his friend Zafar he cannot even allow himself to hope. When Elli Barber arrives, an "Amrikan" keen to set up a free clinic to help the victims of the disaster, deep suspicion arises amongst the community. Animal resolves to turn the situation to his advantage and starts to investigate Elli's motives UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007042118-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0827/2007042118-s.html ER -