Remembering Babylon: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)

Remembering Babylon: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist) - Paperback

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Remembering Babylon: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist) - Paperback

Remembering Babylon: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist) - Paperback

by David Malouf
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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 an 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

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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
ISBN9780679749516
Author David Malouf
PublisherVintage
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 1994
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Remembering Babylon: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)

Remembering Babylon: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist) - Paperback

Remembering Babylon: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist) - Paperback

By David Malouf

About David Malouf

David Malouf is the author of ten novels and six volumes of poetry. His novel The Great World was awarded both the prestigious Commonwealth Prize and the Prix Femina Estranger. Remembering Babylon was short-listed for the Booker Prize. He lives in Sydney, Australia.

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