The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- ISBN-10
- 1784701386
- ISBN-13
- 9781784701383
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Random House
- Author
- Richard Flanagan
Description
***WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014*** Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncleâe(tm)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. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanaganâe(tm)s epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one manâe(tm)s reckoning with the truth.
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