Plutonium
Plutonium
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Marie-Louise, one of Benjamin Lavoie's daughters, goes to live with her uncle in the southern United States to escape the Second World War, which is raging in Europe. Settled in Los Alamos, New Mexico, she witnesses disturbing tests taking place in the middle of the desert. What is behind this mysterious "Manhattan Project" whose name she hears being spoken? On the other side of the world, a young Japanese woman named Yuriko sees her life turned upside down by a wave of terror that hits the city of Hiroshima. The atrocities she witnesses are unimaginable, but are all too real. Through the intersecting stories of the two teenagers, we go behind the scenes of an unprecedented human catastrophe, told with the skill and attention to detail that we know from Camille Bouchard. After transporting the reader into the excitement of the Mexican Revolution with Pistolero and into the heart of the trenches of Dien Bien Phu with Indochine, Camille Bouchard introduces us to an America hungry for power and a Japan shaken by horror. In a fascinating way, he manages to lift the veil on the power games that led to the birth of the nuclear threat.
