
A searing & magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation with early settlers staking out their small patch of land & terrified by the harsh & alien continent Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants & the native Aborigines Remembering Bablyon tells the tragic & compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds Shot through with humour & written with the poetic intensity that characterised Malouf's An Imaginary Life this is a novel of epic scope yet it is simple compassionate & universal a classic