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What would you do if you saw the love of your life, whom you thought dead for a quarter of a century, walking towards you? Richard Flanagan?s story, of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle?s wife, journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early twentieth century to a crumbling pre-war beachside hotel; from a Thai jungle prison to a Japanese snow festival; from the Changi gallows to a chance meeting of lovers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet Basho?s travel journal, The Narrow Road To The Deep North is about the impossibility of love. At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943. As the day builds to its horrific climax, Dorrigo Evans battles and fails in his quest to save the lives of his fellow POWs, a man is killed for no reason, and a love story unfolds.
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Prisoners of war, Fiction, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Literary, Australian fiction, Physicians, Death, Letters, Coming of age, Survival, Family life, Emotions, Literary, Choice, Guilt, Historical, War & Military, FICTION, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2014-11-02, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, historical, general, World war, 1939-1945, fictionPlaces
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The narrow road to the deep north
2014, Vintage, Knopf, Alfred K. Knopf
in English
- First American edition.
0385352859 9780385352857
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"A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present"--
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