The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanagan
🏆 Winner of the 2014 Booker Prize
The Narrow Road to the Deep North tells the story of Dorrigo Evans, a doctor from Tasmania who, as an old man, flashes back to his time in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, building the infamous Burma Railway.
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“I’ve read quite a lot of novels based around the war in the Far East and this one is by far the most realistic. I think my father would have said, ‘This is what it was like.’ …The book won the Booker Prize. It is an interesting book, a compelling read, combining the horrors of working on the railway with a love story—an unusual combination.” Read more...
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