Cobalt Red
How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
$25.74
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2024
Summary
2024 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
Now in paperback: the powerful, revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award.
An unflinching investigation reveals the human rights abuses behind the Congo’s cobalt mining operation—and the moral implications that affect us all.
Cobalt Red is the searing, first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the peopl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781250322159 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1250322154 |
| Author: | Siddharth Kara |
| Publisher: | St Martin's Press |
| Imprint: | Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 252g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 137mm x 212mm |
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Critics Review
“Timely, important, compelling.” – The Los Angeles Times
“Harrowing…a righteous quest to expose injustice.” – The New York Times Book Review
“Powerful…heart-wrenching…compelling.” – The Wall Street Journal
“I hope policy-makers on every continent will read this book.” – Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost
“A riveting, eye-opening, terribly important book.” – Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air
Siddharth Kara
Siddharth Kara is an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery. He is a British Academy Global Professor and an Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University. Kara has authored three books on modern slavery and won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Kara’s first book was adapted into a Hollywood film, Trafficked. A feature film inspired by Cobalt Red is currently in pre-production. He divides his time between the UK and the US.
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