The Narrow Road to the Deep North, 9781761048142
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War, love, loss: a surgeon’s haunting journey on the death railway.
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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    480 pages

  • Release Date

    11 April 2023

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Summary

A masterpiece. The Narrow Road is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career.

A novel of the cruelty of war, the tenuousness of life, and the impossibility of love.

August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian 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, fr…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761048142
ISBN-10:1761048147
Author:Richard Flanagan
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:11 April 2023
Weight:331g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 28mm
About The Author

Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina etranger and the Prix du meilleur livre etranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.

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