Remembering Babylon

by David Malouf

A runner-up for the Booker Prize, this novel is about a 13-year-old British cabin boy named Gemmy who is set ashore in Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later, he runs across European settlers, who find him both fascinating and repellent. "Remembering Babylon" concerns Gemmy's own sense of self, his knowledge of the aborigines, and how both he and they are perceived by the Europeans.

Editions of Remembering Babylon

ISBN 9780394280431	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Random House of Canada Ltd	Date 1993	Price $10.00	Good+
ISBN 9780679427247	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Random House Inc	Date 1993	Price $1.00	Good
ISBN 9780679749516	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Vintage Books	Date 1994	Price $1.00	Used - Good

Publisher Notes

In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives an immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions.
In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Germmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. 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. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal.