The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Written by Richard Flanagan

Trade Paperback, 416 pages | Vintage | Fiction – War; Fiction – Historical; Fiction – Literary | $15.95 | April 14, 2015 | 978-0-8041-7147-2 (0-8041-7147-5)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

“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.