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Lapierre, Dominique.

Five past midnight in Bhopal / Dominique Lapierre, Javier Moro ; translated from the French by Kathryn Spink.

New York, NY : Warner Books, ©2002.

xviii, 403 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Recreates the events of December 3, 1984, in the ancient city of Bhopal, India, when a cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing and injuring thousands of people.

Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984.

Pesticides industry -- Accidents -- India -- Bhopal.

Moro, Javier, 1955-

Il était minuit cinq à Bhopal. English

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Translated from the French.

Firecrackers that kill, cows that die, insects that murder -- The planetary holocaust wrought by armies of ravaging insects -- A neighborhood called Orya Bustee -- A visionary billionaire to the rescue of humanity's food -- Three zealots on the banks of the Hudson -- The daily heroism of the people of the Bustees -- An American valley that ruled the world -- A little mouse under the seats of Bhopal's trains -- A poison that smelled like boiled cabbage -- They deserved the mercy of God -- "A hand for the future" -- A promised land on the ruins of a legendary kingdom -- A continent of three hundred million peasants and six hundred languages -- Some very peculiar pimps -- A plant as "inoffensive a chocolate factory" -- A new star in the Indian sky -- "They'll never dare send in their bulldozers" -- Wages of fear on the roads of Maharashtra -- The lazy poets' circle -- "Carbide has poisoned our water!" -- The first deadly drops from the "beautiful plant" -- Three tanks dressed up for a carnival -- "Half a million hours of work and not a day lost" -- Everlasting roots in the black earth of the Kali Grounds -- A gas that makes you laugh before it kills you -- "You will be reduced to dust" -- Ali Baba's treasure for the heroes of the Kali grounds -- The sudden arrival of a cost-cutting gentleman -- "My beautiful plant was losing its soul" -- The fiancés of the Orya Bustee -- The end of a young Indian's dream -- The vengeance of the people of the Kali Grounds -- Festivities that set hearts ablaze -- A Sunday unlike any other -- A night blessed by the stars -- Three sarcophagi under the moon -- "What if the stars were to go on strike?" -- Geysers of death -- Lungs bursting in the heart of the night -- "Something beyond all comprehension" -- "All hell has broken loose here!" -- A half-naked holy man in the heart of a deadly cloud -- The dancing girl was not dead -- "Death to the killer Anderson!" -- "Carbide has made us the center of the world."

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