Book: Five Past Midnight In Bhopal
Author: Dominique Lapierre
Pages: 432
This is my 24th read for the year
On December 3rd, 1984 toxic gas escaped from a pesticide plant in Bhopal that killed thousands. The author brings together families and workers that were there during this disaster to rebuild the story and how it came to be.
There isn't much I can say about this one. I was interested in the disaster because when it happened I was only 9 years old and I don't remember it at all. However - this book is poorly written. There is very little in the book about the disaster itself, the rest of it being "fluff" about some of the families and workers in the area leading up to the disaster. Interwoven the author talks about the company that brought the pesticide plant to Bhopal, but it gets lost among clumsy phrasing. This book could have been less than 200 pages - talk about the day or two before the disaster, the disaster itself and the immediate aftermath. Then possibly where people are now. But that didn't happen, and so I really cannot recommend this one as a good story to learn about what happened in Bhopal in 1984.
Stars: 2
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