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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan’s epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man’s reckoning with the truth.
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
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- Released
- 2015
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Richard Flanagan
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 464
- ISBN10
- 1784701386
- ISBN13
- 9781784701383
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Historical Fiction, Military Fiction, Wars, World War II, Death, Literary Fiction, Japan, Asia, Railways / Trains, Australia, Fight, Based on True Events, Trauma, Australian Literature, Jungle, Hell, Prisoners of War, Forced Labor, Booker Prize, Japanese people, War Veterans
- First published
- 2014
- Original title
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan’s epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man’s reckoning with the truth.