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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Man Booker Prize and was a National Bestseller. 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.

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Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Year
2014
ISBN-13
9780385352864
Genre
FictionCrime & Thriller
Topics
War and survivalLove and lossTrauma and memoryPrisoners of warMoral complexity of good and evil

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