Remembering Babylon

Remembering Babylon
David Malouf
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Paperback
h199 x 131mm - 192pg
1 Apr 2009 AU
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9781741667684
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In the 1840s, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors. A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds - the 'civilised' and the 'primitive'.
"Malouf dares a style in which a metaphor clinches a whole personality, while the common act of looking at the light and plants of Australia produces plainly spiritual transformations." -- Francis Spufford The Guardian (London) "Remembering Babylon is another rare chance to read a work by one of the few contemporary novelists who examines our constantly battered humanity and again and again brings out its lingering beauty" -- Terry Goldie The Globe and Mail (Canada) "There are passages of aching beauty in Remembering Babylon, and passages of shocking degradation. Mr. Malouf has written a wonderfully wise and moving novel, a novel that turns the history and mythic past of Australia into a dazzling fable of human hope and imperfection" New York Times "A dazzling novel...The story has moments of such high intensity that they remain scorched in memory. As the story moves forward to its conclusion, we go unwillingly with it, not wanting this book, with the wisdom it contains, to stop speaking to us." The Toronto Star "The novel is beautifully written. Malouf's Queensland shimmers." -- Susan Geason The Sun Herald (Sydney, Austrailia)
DAVID MALOUF is the author of short story collections THE COMPLETE STORIES (winner of the Australia Asia Literary Award), DREAM STUFF ('These stories are pearls,' - Spectator) and EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE and of acclaimed novels including THE GREAT WORLD (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' and Miles Franklin Prizes) and REMEMBERING BABYLON (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award). His most recent work RANSOM was shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award and the Qld Premier's Literary Award. He also writes poetry, drama and libretti for operas. Born and brought up in Brisbane, he lives in Sydney.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781741667684
Published: 1 Apr 2009
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Vintage Australia
Publisher: Random House Australia
Format: Paperback
Height: 199mm
Width: 131mm
Pages: 192
Dewey: 823

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