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It was five past midnight on 3 December 1984. A terrifying cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant in the heart of the Indian city of Bhopal, killing 16,000-30,000 and injuring half a million people. This book recounts the poignant human and technological adventure leading up to this industrial disaster and human tragedy. Hundreds of characters, situations and adventures are telescoped into this fresco of love, heroism, faith and hope. There are people from both the slums and the teak-veneered offices of Union Carbide.
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On the night of December 3, 1984, a cyanide cloud drifted over the streets of Bhopal, India, set loose by a leak in a nearby chemical plant. When the deadly fog lifted untold numbers of the city's residents--perhaps as many as 30,000, by some accounts--lay dead, while half a million others were injured. Dominique Lapierre, a French journalist and longtime champion of India's poor, joins with Spanish writer Javier Moro to recount the terrors of that night, about which the whole truth may never be known. The deaths are but one part of the authors' long, sometimes elaborate tale, which relates how the industrial conglomerate Union Carbide had come to build its vast chemical complex at Bhopal, one meant to be a glory of technology and, ironically, to save thousands of lives brought low by insect-wrought starvation. There are few villains but many heroes in the authors' account, which explores the margins at which good intentions conflict with the profit motive, at which cost-cutting omissions yield horrifically unintended consequences. It all makes for a thoughtful and disturbing book. --Gregory McNamee
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DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE is the author of numerous international bestselling books including IS PARIS BURNING? and CITY OF JOY, several of which have been made into films. A humanitarian and philanthropist, Lapierre and his wife provide sole support for a network of relief programmes throughout India. JAVIER MORO was born in Spain in 1955. As a scriptwriter, he has spent many years in the United States where he has worked with producers such as Ridley Scott. He is the author of THE FOOT OF JAIPUR and THE MOUNTAINS OF BUDDHA.
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 074322034X
- ISBN 13 9780743220347
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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