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El Camino Estrecho al Norte Profundo

El Camino Estrecho al Norte Profundo

by Richard Flanagan
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/06/2016

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize
El camino estrecho al norte profundo nos traslada a los campos de concentracion japoneses en Tailandia para contar una historia sobre la crueldad de la guerra, la vacuidad de la existencia y un amor imposible.
Confinado en un campo de prisioneros japones en plena segunda guerra mundial, el cirujano Dorrigo Evans vive del recuerdo de la historia de amor que mantuvo dos anos atras con la joven esposa de su tio. Mientras los hombres bajo su mando se dejan la piel en la construccion del llamado ferrocarril de la muerte, que pretende unir las capitales de Tailandia y Birmania, Dorrigo lucha por salvarlos de las palizas, el colera y la inanicion. Muchos anos mas tarde, convertido en un heroe de guerra vanidoso y mujeriego, descubrira todo lo que perdio en esa devastadora via hacia el norte.
Galardonada con el Man Booker, el premio mas prestigioso de las letras britanicas, El estrecho camino al norte profundo es una obra maestra que transita entre el amor y el terror, el coraje y el oprobio, al tiempo que nos recuerda, con su prosa hipnotica y exquisita, que las guerras generan la peor de las violencias pero tambien, paradojicamente, la mayor de las bondades.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
"Nothing since Cormac McCarthy's The Road has shaken me like this." --The Washington Post
From the author of the acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.
August, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever.
A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, of truth and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
ISBN:
9788439731139
9788439731139
Category:
War & combat fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-06-2016
Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country of origin:
Spain
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x152.4mm
Weight:
0.37kg
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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