Remembering Babylon
Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award 1996
$29.38
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
19 May 1994
Summary
A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines. Remembering Babylon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot through with humour, and written with the poetic intensity that characterised Malouf’s
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099302421 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 009930242X |
| Author: | David Malouf |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 19 May 1994 |
| Weight: | 140g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 14mm |
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Malouf dares a style in which a metaphor clinches a whole personality, while the common act of looking at the light and plants of Australia produces plainly spiritual transformations.
“Malouf dares a style in which a metaphor clinches a whole personality, while the common act of looking at the light and plants of Australia produces plainly spiritual transformations.” – Francis Spufford The Guardian (London) “Remembering Babylon is another rare chance to read a work by one of the few contemporary novelists who examines our constantly battered humanity and again and again brings out its lingering beauty” – Terry Goldie The Globe and Mail (Canada) “There are passages of aching beauty in Remembering Babylon, and passages of shocking degradation. Mr. Malouf has written a wonderfully wise and moving novel, a novel that turns the history and mythic past of Australia into a dazzling fable of human hope and imperfection” New York Times “A dazzling novel…The story has moments of such high intensity that they remain scorched in memory. As the story moves forward to its conclusion, we go unwillingly with it, not wanting this book, with the wisdom it contains, to stop speaking to us.” The Toronto Star “The novel is beautifully written. Malouf’s Queensland shimmers.” – Susan Geason The Sun Herald (Sydney, Austrailia)
About The Author
David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel Remembering Babylon won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, he won the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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