The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Discover the Booker prize-winning masterpiece

Richard Flanagan

Jul 2014 · Random House

About this ebook

***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE***

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.

This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

'Elegantly wrought, measured and without an ounce of melodrama, Flanagan's novel is nothing short of a masterpiece' Financial Times

Ratings and reviews

Randy young Aussie soldier shags his uncle's younger wife, then goes to war, endures hell in Japanese pow camp, and even worse, has to endure stereotypical toff English officers. Everyone dies. Unremittingly depressing. Beautifully written though.

Harrowing at times with a mysterious end. Beautifully written at times.

The clash of two cultures described by a writer of the top drawer, whilst defining love in its purest form.

About the author

Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. His novels Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, Wanting and The Narrow Road to the Deep North have received numerous honours and are published in 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North in 2014.