Remembering Babylon - Brossura

Malouf, David

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ISBN 10: 0394280431 ISBN 13: 9780394280431

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 1994

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"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

L'autore:

David Malouf was born in Brisbane in 1934. His last novel, The Great World, won the 1991 Commonwealth Writer's Prize, and the Prix Fémina Etranger. He lives in Sydney and Tuscany.

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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0394280431
• ISBN 13: 9780394280431
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1