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SUMMARY:Remembering Babylon
LOCATION:MK Bower cafe
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 26% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nDavid Malouf ... "Remembering Babylon"\n\nIt won the inau
 gural International Dublin Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Book
 er Prize[[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RememberingBabyloncitenote-1) 
 and the Miles Franklin Award.\nThe novel covers themes of isolation\, lang
 uage\, relationships\, community and living "on the edge" (of society\, co
 nsciousness\, culture).\nIts themes evolve into a greater narrative of an 
 English boy\, Gemmy Fairley\, who is marooned on a foreign land and is rai
 sed by a group of Aboriginal people\, natives to the land in Queensland. W
 hen white settlers reach the area\, he attempts to move back in the world 
 of Europeans. As Gemmy wrestles with his own identity\, the community of s
 ettlers struggle to deal with their fear of the unknown.\nThe narrative wa
 s influenced by the experiences of James Morrill "James Morrill (castaway)
 ")\, a shipwreck survivor who lived with Aboriginal people in North Queens
 land for 17 years from 1846 to 1863.
URL:https://www.meetup.com/brisbane-classic-books-meetup/events/315550573/
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