{"product_id":"2026100009372-secondhand-remembering-babylon-signed","title":"Remembering Babylon (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: No. 135 of 150 copies. Limited Numbered and Signed Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sun-scorched wilderness of nineteenth-century Queensland, a pale and ragged figure stumbles out of the bush toward a group of settler children, balancing precariously on a fence post — not quite white, not quite black, and utterly transfixing. Remembering Babylon chronicles the unsettling arrival of Gemmy Fairley, a white man who has spent sixteen years living among Aboriginal Australians, into a fragile colonial community whose carefully constructed sense of identity is thrown into profound crisis. David Malouf's spare, luminous prose dissects the raw nerve of colonial anxiety, asking what it truly means to belong — to a land, a people, or a self — as Gemmy's presence forces each settler to confront the boundaries they have drawn around their own humanity.\n\nWidely regarded as one of the masterworks of late twentieth-century Australian literature, the novel argues that the settler experience was always haunted by the vast, ancient continent it sought to tame and rename. Malouf writes with a poet's precision and a historian's conscience, layering personal myth against collective memory to reveal how civilisation is as much an act of forgetting as it is of building. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Remembering Babylon leaves the reader with an indelible question: what must we surrender of ourselves in order to truly know the ground beneath our feet?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216192446683,"sku":"2026100009372-SECONDHAND","price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2dc47c2d-71ef-4e91-a6b6-9d45e8ce6898.png?v=1788404979","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009372-secondhand-remembering-babylon-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}