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21%OFFDavid Malouf - Remembering Babylon - 9780099589730 - V9780099589730
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Remembering Babylon

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Description for Remembering Babylon Paperback. Focusing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines, this book tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
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 Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot through with humour, and poetic intensity, Malouf's epic novel of epic scope is simple, compassionate and universal.

Product Details

Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099589730
SKU
V9780099589730
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About David Malouf
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. ... Read more

Reviews for Remembering Babylon
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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Remembering Babylon


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