Remembering Babylon
Synopsis
In the mid-1840s, a thirteen-year-old boy, Gemmy Fairley, 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 home in an alien place, hopeful and yet terrified of what it might do to them.
Author Biography
David Malouf was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1934. After lecturing and teaching in Australia and England, he became a full-time writer in 1978. His first two published books were both collections of poetry: Bicycle and Other Poems and Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems. His novels include The Great World, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Prix Fémina Etranger (France) and Remembering Babylon, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction and won the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996, as well as the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His most recent collection of short stories is Every Move You Make.
