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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

by Richard Flanagan
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 12/08/2014

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From the winner of Australia s National Fiction Prize, author of the hugely acclaimed "Gould s Book of Fish," comes a magisterial, "Rashomon"-like novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle s young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings until he receives a letter that will change him forever.Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of death, love, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age and prospers, only to discover all that he has lost."
ISBN:
9781483021461
9781483021461
Category:
War & combat fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
12-08-2014
Publisher:
Blackstone Audiobooks
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
147x135x38mm
Weight:
0.29kg
Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961. He is descended from Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1840s. His father is a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. One of his three brothers is Australian Rules football journalist Martin Flanagan. He grew up in the remote mining town of Rosebery on Tasmania’s western coast.

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 twenty-six countries.

He directed a feature film version of The Sound Of One Hand Clapping. A collection of his essays is published as And What Do You Do, Mr Gable?

His latest book The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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