A searing and magnificent picture of Australia at the moment of its foundation, with early settlers staking out their small patch of land and terrified by the harsh and alien continent. Focussing on the hostility between the early British inhabitants and the native Aborigines.Remembering Bablyontells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot through with humour, and written with the poetic intensity that characterised Malouf'sAn Imaginary Life,this is a novel of epic scope yet it is simple, compassionate and universal: a classic.

David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels includingThe Great World(winner of the Commonwealth Writers' prize and the Prix Femina Etranger),Remembering Babylon(shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award),An Imaginary Life,Conversations at Curlow Creek,His most recent, Ransom,published in 2010, and his autobiographical classic12 Edmondstone Street. HisCollected Storieswon the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award, and his recent story collections areDream Stuff('These stories are pearls'Spectator) andEvery Move You Make('Rare and luminous talent'Guardian). In 2008 Malouf was the Scottish Arts' Council Muriel Spark International Fellow. Born in 1934 in Brisbane, where he was brought up, he lives in Sydney.

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