HEARTLESS STONE: Tom Zoellner: St. Martin's Press: Nonfiction: 299 pagesHeartless Stone is a journey to fourteen countries to learn the human and environmental costs of mining diamonds. Diamonds have been marketed so brilliantly that we cherish them as symbols of love and commitment, never imagining the price in misery that someone has paid to dredge them from the earth. The book is fascinating, well-written and deeply dismaying. It is hardly fair to call the diamond a heartless stone. Readers of this book will more likely wonder if it isn't humans who have hearts of stone.
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