The Narrow Road to the Deep North

By Richard Flanagan

Book Overview

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, Ciar n Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker.

"Magnificent." --The New York Times Book Review

"Nothing short of a masterpiece." --Financial Times

August, 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, only to discover all that he has lost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804171475
• ISBN13: 9780804171472
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 8.0"