description: David Malouf's novel--shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize--is a masterpiece.  In the mid-1840s, a thirteen year old boy is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines.  Sixteen years later, when settlers reach the area, he moves back into the world of Europeans, men and women who are staking out their small patch of security in an alien, half-mythological land, hopeful yet terrified of what it might do to them.
language: English
title: Remembering Babylon
titlecomplete: Remembering Babylon
genres: Read For School, Australia, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 3340
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: Random House Value Publishing