num_pages: 207
description: In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions.  In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal.
language: English
title: Remembering Babylon
titlecomplete: Remembering Babylon
genres: Fiction, Historical, Australia, School, Literature, Read For School, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3341
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award
category: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in South East Asia and Pacific, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Vintage