Join Robert Minhinnick is on a journey across a radioactive planet.
Researching the use of depleted uranium in modern weapons, the
writer follows a deadly trail from the uranium mines of the USA
into Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Here, he is led into the temples of a
deserted Babylon and to what his guides insist is the site of the
Tower of Babel, and to the horrors of Iraqi society in the years
after the first Gulf War. Interspersed with these 'radioactive
writings', which seem part documentary, part dream, are essays on a
host of different places. Minhinnick pursues Dante through
Florence, sees the world through the eyes of Mr Ogmore from 'Under
Milk Wood', and searches for a poem given to him by a murdered
schoolgirl. The contemporary world is simultaneously familiar and
bizarre, yet when Minhinnick is 'back' in his native Wales, its
coastline and valleys are as extraordinary as anything encountered
in a Babel that might be myth or alarmingly real.
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