Remembering Babylon
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto, 1993
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Great Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill, Williamsford, ON, CanadaGreat Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill
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Condition: Used - Very good
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200 pp. Light edgewear, lower rear corner lightly bumped, page split at title page; pictorial dustjacket shows light creasing at head of spine, a few short closed tears, upper front corner slightly chipped, some minor surface scratching, else an excellent copy. A novel set in Australia. "A magnificent portrait of a continent and a searing account of the ordeals of settlement and first contact with the unknown .".
Seller Inventory # 002621
- Title
- Remembering Babylon
- Author
- Malouf, David
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Toronto
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Dust jacket
- Very Good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394280075
- ISBN 13
- 9780394280073
- Edition
- First Canadian Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo
- Seller catalogs
- Modern First Editions
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
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Great Books&Cafe @ The Williamsford Mill
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