by Richard Flanagan · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099593584
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«The Narrow Road to the Deep North» is the historical novel by Richard Flanagan, published by Random House UK in paperback (464 pages, in English).
In a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp beside the Death Railway in Burma, surgeon Dorrigo Evans tries to save his men while haunted by the memory of an affair with his uncle's young wife. The narrative moves between Tasmania, a coastal hotel and the Thai jungle in a story about the forms of love, war and truth.
Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The title comes from the travel diary of the poet Matsuo Bashō and the work has been adapted into a television series.
For readers of historical and literary fiction set during the Second World War and for reading groups interested in award-winning fiction.
Richard Miller Flanagan is an Australian writer, who won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the first writer in history to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes. "Considered by many to be the finest Australian novelist of his generation" according to The Economist, Flanagan has also worked as a film director and screenwriter.
