World Literature Today, September 22nd, 1994
It is interesting to note that for the American edition of Remembering Babylon, the library cataloguing information puts David Malouf's eighth novel into two categories: "Frontier and pioneer life - Australia" and "Australian aborigines - Fiction." It will not come as a surprise, then, to discover a light historical romance in the tradition of Seven Little Australians. The novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century in the outback of Queensland and deals indirectly with differing and opposing cultures: that of the new white settlers, and that of the Aborigines. This, of course, has already be...
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