Remembering Babylon

De: David Malouf

Narrado por: Paul English

A young boy caught in the conflict between early British settlers and native Aborigines witnesses the barbaric tensions that bedevilled the birth of a nation in this profound and mythical novel.

In the 1840s, a ship's boy, cast ashore in northern Australia, is taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later he steps out of the bush and inadvertently confronts the new white settlers with their unspoken terrors.

A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focusing on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals, Remembering Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy caught between both worlds - the civilised and the primitive.

Shot through with humour, and written with the poetic intensity that characterised Malouf's An Imaginary Life, this is a novel of epic scope yet it is simple, compassionate and universal: a classic.

©1993 David Malouf (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing

wow. just excellent

I loved this, highly recommended. The imaginative, evocative and very lifelike story, the absolutely beautiful and journeying writing of David Malouf, bundled together by Paul English, one of the top 3 narrators I've heard. The ending parceled up more quickly, in a more poetically distant or reminiscing tone than I expected from the rest of it. I will definitely read another David Malouf (next time as a book) - and definitely seek out other books narrated by Paul English. if you're pondering, then do it :)