{"product_id":"2026100011808-secondhand-remembering-babylon","title":"Remembering Babylon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: small dent on the board, otherwise internally sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nMalouf 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51103134187739,"sku":"2026100011808-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f98cf759-ee55-4dde-8386-4b86885c3025.png?v=1794449138","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100011808-secondhand-remembering-babylon","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}