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Remembering Babylon (Vintage Classic)

David Malouf

Remembering Babylon (Vintage Classic)

ISBN: 9780099302421
Publisher: Vintage
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Format: Paperback
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In the 1840's, a ship's boy cast ashore in northern Australia is taken in by Aborigines; 16 years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with unspoken terrors. This dramatisation of an edge- of- the- world encounter between the "civilised" and the "primitive" is outstanding: a deft and economical evocation of an entire nascent society, punctuated by moments of dazzling, revelatory language and unforgettable images.