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The narrow road to the deep north

Flanagan, Richard, 1961-2025
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A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian 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. This savagely beautiful novel is a story 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.
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Imprint:
[Southbank, VIC] : Penguin Books, 2025.©2013
Collation:
467 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Originally published: Vintage, 2013."Now an original series Prime"--Cover.
Awards:
Man Booker Prize, Winner 2014Indie Book of the Year, Winner 2014Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Winner 2014
ISBN:
9781761357237 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.3
Language:
English
BRN:
177798
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