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Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nomineeIn this rich and compelling novel written in language of astonishing poise andresonance one of Australias greatest living writers gives and immenselypowerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid1840s athirteenyearold British cabin boy Gemmy Fairley is cast ashore in the farnorth of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he movesback into the world of Europeans among hopeful yet terrified settlers who arestaking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them Gemmy standsas a different kind of challenge he is a force that at once fascinates andrepels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as theknowledge he brings to others of the savage the aboriginal.Breathtaking...To read this remarkable book is to remember Babylon wellwhether you think youve been there or not.The New York Times Book Review «
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