![]() In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. No other author draws us into ‘the strange, terrible neverendingness of human beings’ the way Flanagan does.” - Ron Charles, Washington PostĪugust, 1943. Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Roadhas shaken me like this … This is a classic work of war fiction from a world-class writer … a series of blistering episodes you will never get out of your mind … The prose is as haunting and evocative as the haiku by 17th-century Japanese poet Basho that gives this novel its title. ![]() “Daring … Captivating … Often unbearably powerful … The Narrow Road to the Deep North into dark contemplation the way only the most extraordinary books can. ![]() The Narrow Road to the Deep North is winner of The Man Booker Prize 2014! ![]()
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