Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nominee
In this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of Australia's greatest living writers gives and immensely powerful vision of human differences and eternal divisions. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old British cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later he moves back into the world of Europeans, among hopeful yet terrified settlers who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place. To them, Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge: he is a force that at once fascinates and repels. His own identity in this new world is as unsettling to him as the knowledge he brings to others of the savage, the aboriginal.
"Breathtaking...To read this remarkable book is to remember Babylon well, whether you think you've been there or not."
--The New York Times Book Review
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..at this point with little progress in my dissertation writing, still have to read such a novel for TA discussion. .feel so bad.
评分David Malouf has a great talent in describing the epiphany of the characters,usually adolescent. The language is exquisite and tender. But i do really think the plot is somehow a little bit plain.
评分David Malouf has a great talent in describing the epiphany of the characters,usually adolescent. The language is exquisite and tender. But i do really think the plot is somehow a little bit plain.
评分后殖民主義
评分tutor不大感冒，我卻賊喜歡
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