The narrow road to the deep north / Richard Flanagan.
August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever. Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil , war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost. -- Jacket flap.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385352857
- ISBN: 0385352859
- ISBN: 0701189053
- Physical Description: 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Originally published in Australia by Vintage Books, an imprint of Random House Australia Pty Ltd., Sydney, in 2013."--Title page verso.
- Awards Note:
- Man Booker Prize, 2014
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | F Fla (Text) | 30308101088574 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
