The Narrow Road to the Deep North A novel

Richard Flanagan

eBook - 2014

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present.Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker."Magnificent." —The New York Times Book Review "Nothing short of a masterpiece." —Financial TimesAugust, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until ...he receives a letter that will change him forever.A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, of truth and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers,... more