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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 Bablyon tells 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's An Imaginary Life, this is a novel of epic scope yet it is simple, compassionate and universal: a classic.

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Encuadernación: Rústica con solapas.Hacia el final de la Guerra de Troya, Aquiles, furioso por la muerte de su compañero Patroclo a manos de Héctor, hijo de Príamo, rey de Troya, mata a Héctor y profana su cadáver arrastrándolo colgado de su carro alrededor de las murallas de Troya durante once días. Príamo, que no puede honrar la memoria de Héctor como es debido, decide rebajarse como ningún otro hombre lo ha hecho antes: se arrodilla ante su enemigo, el asesino de su hijo, y le suplica que le devuelva su cuerpo a cambio de un rescate.David Malouf explicaría que en el encuentro entre Príamo y Aquiles, dos hombres poderosos devastados por la pena, narrado brevemente en la Ilíada, descubrió una de esas historias no contadas que encontramos en los márgenes de escritores anteriores.Malouf, uno de los más prestigiosos escritores australianos contemporáneos, reelabora y amplía el material de la Ilíada en la que es su primera novela en diez años, Rescate; un homenaje al arte de na

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Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.

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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 Bablyon tells the tragic and compelling story of a boy who finds himself caught between the two worlds. Shot through with humour, and poetic intensity, Malouf's epic novel of epic scope is simple, compassionate and universal.

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MALOUFThrough the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu, Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil, all four have been independently damaged and discarded. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption.

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