The Narrow Road To The Deep North (discover The Booker Prize-winning Masterpiece)
By (author) Richard Flanagan
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By (author) Richard Flanagan; By (author) Flanagan, Richard
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In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma 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.
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Some years, very good books win the Man Booker Prize but this year a masterpiece has won it
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a virtuoso performance… every time I pick up the book, I feel – and I mean it – sparks of fire, from some imaginary battlefield. It is that vivid.
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Well worth a read.
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Profoundly moving.
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The writing is exquisite.
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The quality of the writing is extraordinary and the emotions it provoked in me have never left
Biographical note:
Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. 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 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North in 2014.
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A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost
Short description/annotation:
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma 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.
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Dorrigo Evans, an Australian army surgeon, is haunted by a forbidden love as he struggles to keep his men alive in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
Before captivity, Dorrigo''s affair with Amy Mulvaney reshaped his life. Now, amidst the violence of the Second World War, as Dorrigo struggles to save the men under his commend from starvation, cholera and beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.
A landmark work of historical fiction, The Narrow Road to the Deep North explores the power of love and the enduring cost of war.
Review quote:
Some years, very good books win the Man Booker Prize but this year a masterpiece has won it
Review quote:
a virtuoso performance… every time I pick up the book, I feel – and I mean it – sparks of fire, from some imaginary battlefield. It is that vivid.
Review quote:
Well worth a read.
Review quote:
Profoundly moving.
Review quote:
The writing is exquisite.
Review quote:
The quality of the writing is extraordinary and the emotions it provoked in me have never left
Biographical note:
Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. 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 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North in 2014.
Promotional headline:
A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost
| Author | By (author) Richard Flanagan |
|---|---|
| Date Of Publication | Mar 26, 2015 |
| EAN | 9780099593584 |
| Contributors | Richard Flanagan; Flanagan, Richard |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Languages | English |
| Country of Publication | United Kingdom |
| Width | 131 mm |
| Height | 199 mm |
| Thickness | 31 mm |
| Product Forms | Paperback / Softback |
| Weight | 0.319000 |
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