At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world’s environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth’s cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.
Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
| Book Author | Marilynne Robinson |
|---|---|
| Format | eBook |
| ISBN | 9781429944731 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 179 |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication Date | 2011-04-01 |
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