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* Read * The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan í eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Narrow Road to the Deep North Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostIn The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards,
| Title | : | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (556 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804171475 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
But he would, no doubt, have been as proud of it as his son was of him.” —The Independent (UK) “Despite the novel’s epic sprawl it retains the delicate vignettes that characterise Flanagan’s work, those beautiful brush strokes of poignancy and veracity that remain in the reader’s mind long afterwards.” —West Australian News “Mesmerising A profound meditation on life and time, memory and forgetting A magnificent achievement, truly the crown on an already illustrious career.” —Adelaide Advertiser. Not just a great novel but an important book in its ability to look at terrible things and create something beautiful. One of the Best Books of the Year at • The New York Times
He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.richardflanagan. Richard Flanagan's five previous novels—Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and Wanting—have received numerous honors and are published in twenty-six countries
Winner of the Man Booker Prize“Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington PostIn The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction. Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
"Life was only about getting the next footstep right." Jill I. Shtulman The very best books don't just entertain, uplift or educate us. They enfold us in their world and make us step outside of ourselves and become transformed. And sometimes, if we're really lucky, they ennoble and affirm us.The Narrow Road to the Deep North is such a book. Once I got past the first 60 or 70 pages, there was no turning back. I turned the last page marveling at Mr. Flanagan's skill and agreeing with historian Barbara Tuchman that, "Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."The Narrow Road is b. How to decipher an indecipherable world? Goodness eludes the charactersThe protagonist, Dorrigo Evans, is a womanizer, an unloving husband, an unsatisfactory father, a somewhat reckless surgeon, and a war hero who considers himself a man without virtue.The Japanese soldiers who tormented him and his men in a POW jungle camp in Siam consider themselves good men, heroically devoted to the Emperor and faithful to their idea of duty. Years later they actually do develop compassion (too late to benefit the POWs).These shifting sands of morality are a recurrent theme in the book. It's clear that Dorrigo protected his . J. S. Williams said Read " King Rat". My heart sank a bit at the opening line," Why, at the beginning of things is there always light?" and quite a few times more in the following pages, but my duty as a book club member was to carry on in this month's selection. Without that impetus, I would have put it down even before it got to the part it was supposed to be about (almost half way through): the brutality and dehumanization of life in a WWII Pacific Theatre POW camp under the hubristic Japanese and the psyche of the survivors, both the imprisoned and their imprisoners. There are so many brief forays into th
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