- Prisoners of war, Burma, History, World War, 1939-1945
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a love story unfolding over half a century between a doctor and his uncle’s wife. Taking its title from one of the most famous books in Japanese literature, written by the great haiku poet Basho, Flanagan’s novel has as its heart one of the most infamous episodes of Japanese history, the construction of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in World War II. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the 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. [Source][1] [1]: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/books/narrow-road-deep-north
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- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Richard Flanagan
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 445
- Publisher
- Alfred K. Knopf, Raig Verd Editorial, Vintage Books
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- heb, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9789085425700
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Born in Tasmania in 1961, Richard Flanagan is one of Australia’s leading novelists. His novels, *Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish* (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize), *The Unknown Terrorist* and *Wanting* have received numerous honours and been published in 26 countries. His father, who died the day Flanagan finished *The Narrow Road to the Deep North,* was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. ([Source)](http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/editions/the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-north/9780701189051)
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