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I found this a very painful and moving story, not easy to read, but buoyed up with hope. It's the story of a young man who has grown up (or anyway, grown) in the shadow of a chemical factory disaster that has left him having to walk on all fours, so he's called 'Animal'. He's living in terrible poverty with people suffering from the poisonous fallout all around him, but he's surrounded by tough love and friendship. There is a lot of sex-related language and swearing - that seemed very realistic
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I am beginning to suspect that I am depraved, at least in relation to many, who deplore the language. I loved it. I thought the bawdy bits realistic and funny and described male sexual arousal as well as I have ever read. I mistakenly thought it had been written by a woman, Indra being a common female name is Sri Lanka, and I was marvelling at how she got inside a male head, albeit a normal adolescent male head in a misshapen body. I loved the way the Sinha teased the reader with puns like jamis
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A gripping read told from the point of view of "Animal", a 19-year old Indian man who walks on all fours...and he has quite the colorful language.
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Jul 05, 2011
Andre Mitchell
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