One of our Books of the Year 2014.
Winner of The Man Booker Prize 2014.
This is the story of an Australian surgeon, Dorrigo Evans, a POW in a Japanese camp during World War II, working on the Thai-Burma railway. It moves backwards and forwards in time as we learn of his life, his great love and the lives of his fellows, both captors and POWs. It’s a bit confusing to start with but stick with it for it is a most magnificent, horrific, masterful book on the period. The wartime atrocities are horrendous. Dorrigo is sustained by the memory of an affair he had just before the war. We move on to life after the war where Dorrigo needs a string of mistresses to block out the horror. He is seen as a hero; he doesn’t feel like one. This is not an easy read; it’s tough on the stomach but it is both impressive, disturbing and important...'.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2014.
Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. 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.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Narrow Road to the Deep North was written by Richard Flanagan and published by Vintage
The Narrow Road to the Deep North has 448 pages
£8.99
