Remembering Babylon (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
In the untamed wilderness of mid-nineteenth-century Queensland, a young English boy named Gemmy Fairley stumbles out of the bush and into a remote Scottish settler community, having spent sixteen years living among the Aboriginal people — a man who is neither fully white nor black, neither fully civilised nor wild. Remembering Babylon chronicles this profound collision of worlds, as Gemmy's arrival forces the settlers to confront their deepest fears about identity, belonging, and the thin veneer of civilisation they have tried to transplant onto an ancient, indifferent land. David Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated prose stylists, constructs a novel of extraordinary compression and lyrical intensity, interrogating the colonial imagination and the psychological cost of drawing borders — around land, around culture, around the self. Widely regarded as a landmark of Australian literature and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this haunting fable asks whether a society built on exclusion can ever truly know the country it inhabits — or the strangers it turns away.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1993, Chatto & Windus / Random House Australia
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
In the untamed wilderness of mid-nineteenth-century Queensland, a young English boy named Gemmy Fairley stumbles out of the bush and into a remote Scottish settler community, having spent sixteen years living among the Aboriginal people — a man who is neither fully white nor black, neither fully civilised nor wild. Remembering Babylon chronicles this profound collision of worlds, as Gemmy's arrival forces the settlers to confront their deepest fears about identity, belonging, and the thin veneer of civilisation they have tried to transplant onto an ancient, indifferent land. David Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated prose stylists, constructs a novel of extraordinary compression and lyrical intensity, interrogating the colonial imagination and the psychological cost of drawing borders — around land, around culture, around the self. Widely regarded as a landmark of Australian literature and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this haunting fable asks whether a society built on exclusion can ever truly know the country it inhabits — or the strangers it turns away.