Remembering Babylon
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: small dent on the board, otherwise internally sound.
In the untamed wilderness of nineteenth-century Queensland, a strange figure emerges from the scrub — Gemmy Fairley, a white man who has spent thirteen years living among the Aboriginal people — and stumbles into a small Scottish settler community, upending everything they thought they knew about race, belonging, and the boundaries of civilisation. David Malouf's Remembering Babylon chronicles the profound disruption that Gemmy's arrival unleashes, forcing the colonists to confront their own fragile identities and the myths upon which their new world is being built. Malouf writes with lyrical precision, weaving together the interior lives of his characters — farmers, ministers, and children alike — to illuminate the deeply human cost of colonialism and the terror of the unknown other. Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, this compact yet towering novel stands as one of the great works of Australian literature, arguing that the lines between the civilised and the savage are far more porous than settlers — or readers — might dare to admit. What does it mean to truly belong to a land, and what must be sacrificed to claim it?
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1993, Chatto & Windus / Random House Australia
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: small dent on the board, otherwise internally sound.
In the untamed wilderness of nineteenth-century Queensland, a strange figure emerges from the scrub — Gemmy Fairley, a white man who has spent thirteen years living among the Aboriginal people — and stumbles into a small Scottish settler community, upending everything they thought they knew about race, belonging, and the boundaries of civilisation. David Malouf's Remembering Babylon chronicles the profound disruption that Gemmy's arrival unleashes, forcing the colonists to confront their own fragile identities and the myths upon which their new world is being built. Malouf writes with lyrical precision, weaving together the interior lives of his characters — farmers, ministers, and children alike — to illuminate the deeply human cost of colonialism and the terror of the unknown other. Winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, this compact yet towering novel stands as one of the great works of Australian literature, arguing that the lines between the civilised and the savage are far more porous than settlers — or readers — might dare to admit. What does it mean to truly belong to a land, and what must be sacrificed to claim it?