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Remembering Babylon

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by David Malouf


  Praise for Remembering Babylon

  ‘Fascinating … Malouf’s prose shimmers with

  the sights and sounds of the continent.’

  Daily Mail

  ‘A really impressive achievement.’

  Doris Lessing

  ‘Breathtaking … To read this remarkable book

  is to remember Babylon well, whether you think

  you’ve been there or not.’

  The New York Times Book Review

  ‘There are books we like so much we don’t want to finish them.

  In this case the same applies to paragraphs and even sentences …

  David Malouf has written a profound and poignant book.’

  Boston Review

  ‘A deft and economical evocation of an entire nascent

  society, punctuated by moments of dazzling, revelatory

  language and unforgettable images.’

  Independent on Sunday

  ‘A profound and elliptical history, thrilling in its

  style and its adventurousness.’

  Michael Ondaatje

  ‘A quietly masterful tale … Delicate but relentless in its

  focus on the manifestations of racial intolerance, this is

  enhanced by a naturalist’s keen eye for detail, bringing

  landscape and states of mind together in a probing,

  resonant vision of discovery and despair.’

  Kirkus Reviews

  ‘A dazzling novel … The story has moments of such high intensity

  that they remain scorched in memory. As the story moves forward

  to its conclusion, we go unwillingly with it, not wanting this book,

  with the wisdom it contains, to stop speaking to us.’

  The Toronto Star

  ‘Remembering Babylon is another rare chance to read a work

  by one of the few contemporary novelists who examines

  our constantly battered humanity and again and again

  brings out its lingering beauty.’

  The Globe and Mail

  ‘There are passages of aching beauty in Remembering Babylon,

  and passages of shocking degradation. Mr. Malouf has

  written a wonderfully wise and moving novel,

  a novel that turns the history and mythic past of Australia

  into a dazzling fable of human hope and imperfection.’

  The New York Times

  ALSO BY DAVID MALOUF

  Fiction

  Ransom

  The Complete Stories

  Dream Stuff

  The Conversations at Curlow Creek

  The Great World

  Antipodes

  Harland’s Half Acre

  Child’s Play

  Fly Away Peter

  An Imaginary Life

  Johnno

  Every Move You Make

  Autobiography

  12 Edmondstone Street

  Poetry

  Selected Poems

  Wild Lemons

  First Things Last

  The Year of the Foxes and Other Poems

  Neighbours in a Thicket

  Bicycle and Other Peoms

  Typewriter Music

  Libretti

  Jane Eyre

  Baa Baa Black Sheep

  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity, including internet search engines or retailers, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying (except under the statutory exceptions provisions of the Australian Copyright Act 1968), recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system without the prior written permission of Random House Australia. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.

  Version 1.0

  Remembering Babylon

  9781742749617

  Copyright © David Malouf 1993

  The moral right of the author has been asserted.

  A Vintage book

  Published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd

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  Addresses for companies within the Random House Group can be found at http://www.randomhouse.com.au/about/contacts.aspx

  First published in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus Ltd. 1993

  This edition published by Vintage in 2009

  National Library of Australia

  Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

  National Library of Australia

  Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry

  Malouf, David, 1934–.

  Remembering Babylon.

  ISBN 978 1 74166 768 4 (pbk).

  Aboriginal Australians – Fiction.

  A823.3

  Cover image adapted from a Worcester plate from the collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

  Cover design by Jenny Grigg

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