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 Aboriginals. REMEMBERING BABYLON 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 Maloufs AN IMAGINARY LIFE this is the novel of epic scope yet it is simple compassionate & universal: a classic.