Dominique Lapierre’s The City of Joy: A Study in Humanism

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Rakesh Bharti Yadav (S. K. Govt. P. G. College, Kanwali)

Dominique Lapierre was born on July 30, 1931 in Chatelaillan, France. His first book was A Dollar for a Thousand Kilometers. His other works include Honeymoon Around the Earth, The City of Joy, Beyond Love, A Thousand Suns, Once Upon a Time in the Soviet Union, A Rainbow in the Night and India- My Beloved. He collaborated with Larry Collins to write Is Paris Burning, O Jerusalem, Or I’ll Dress You in Mourning, Freedom at Midnight, The Fifth Horseman and Is New York Burning? In collaboration with Javier Moro he wrote Five Past Midnight in Bhopal. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2008 by the government of India.