Title : It was five past midnight in Bhopal - Dominique Lapierre, Javier Moro - book

Summary :

Dominique Lapierre takes us to the India of the maharajas and the America of high technology to tell us about one of the greatest industrial tragedies in history.

On the night of December 2-3, 1984, the greatest industrial disaster in history occurred in the ancient Indian city of Bhopal: a toxic gas leak in a pesticide factory, which caused between sixteen and thirty thousand deaths and five hundred thousand injuries... This book tells the extraordinary human and technological adventure that led to this catastrophe. It is a fresco of love, heroism, madness, and hope in which hundreds of characters, situations, and adventures collide. An Indian peasant driven from his land by a swarm of murderous aphids – Three New York entomologists who invent a miracle pesticide – A chemical giant who finds the gas needed to manufacture it – Young Western engineers wanting to eliminate famines in the Third World – A factory handling the most toxic products of the chemical industry and believing itself to be "as innocent as a chocolate factory" – The dreams, joys and celebrations of the damned of a shantytown – A mysterious oriental city at the heart of "Arabian Nights" – Descendants of maharajas and eunuchs who bewitch expatriates from Virginia – A visionary journalist who preaches in the desert – A worker mad with poetry who triggers the apocalypse – Heroic doctors who poison themselves by reviving victims by mouth-to-mouth resuscitation – A young Indian woman who escapes the flames of a pyre thanks to the small cross she wears around her neck... And a multitude of other episodes full of suspense and twists. "It was five past midnight in Bhopal," a true tragedy at the heart of our times that is a warning to all the sorcerer's apprentices who threaten the future of our planet.

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