Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

Remembering Babylon by David Malouf

Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal.

Breathtaking.To read this remarkable book is to remember Babylon well, whether you think you've been there or not.
--The New York Times Book Review

David Malouf has eleven novels to his credit, as well as numerous collections of short stories, poetry, and opera libretti. He currently resides in Australia.

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ISBN 13	9780679427247
ISBN 10	0679427244
Title	Remembering Babylon
Author	David Malouf
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pantheon Books
Year published	1993-09-28
Number of pages	200
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