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Remembering Babylon

David Malouf

1993200 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1993
first published
  • 1993Pantheon Books · 200 pages · ENGISBN 9780679427247
  • 1993A. A. Knopf Canada · 200 pages · ENGISBN 9780394280073
  • 1993Chatto & Windus · 202 pages · ENGISBN 9780701158835
  • 1995ISIS · 247 pages · ENGISBN 9781856953740
  • 1994Vintage · 224 pages · ENGISBN 9780679749516

In the mid-1840s, thirteen-year-old Gemmy Fairley is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by Aboriginals. Sixteen years later, when settlers reach the area, he moves back ino the world of Europeans. Given shelter by the McIvors, Gemmy seems at first to be guaranteed a secure role in the settlement, but there are currents of fear and mistrust in the air. -- back cover.

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