It has no missing or damaged pages, no creasing, no writing, notes or highlighting. Signed by the author!Ĭover image: For illustration purposes only. Written in 1993 by David Malouf, an Australian writer, Remembering Babylon is a novel that centers around an English boy, Gemmy Fairley, who is stranded on. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal.īook type: Pre-loved large hardcover. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australias greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. Contents include: Introduction A perspective on the text. 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. VATE Inside Stories teaching notes for David Maloufs Remembering Babylon. 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.

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. Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee. A signed, first edition hardback of this Australian literary classic.

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