Remembering Babylon - Softcover

Malouf, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394280431 ISBN 13: 9780394280431

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books, 1993

Synopsis

The award-winning author of The Great World creates a world of eternal divisions in the story of thirteen-year-old Gemmy Fairley, cast ashore and adopted by Australian aborigines during the mid-1840s. 17,500 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

David Malouf's novel--shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize--is a masterpiece.  In the mid-1840s, a thirteen year old boy is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines.  Sixteen years later, when settlers reach the area, he moves back into the world of Europeans, men and women who are staking out their small patch of security in an alien, half-mythological land, hopeful yet terrified of what it might do to them.

About the Author:

David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, His most recent, Ransom, published in 2010, and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award, and his recent story collections are Dream Stuff ('These stories are pearls' Spectator) and Every Move You Make ('Rare and luminous talent' Guardian). In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. Born in 1934 in Brisbane, where he was brought up, he lives in Sydney.

About this edition

• Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0394280431
• ISBN 13: 9780394280431
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200