Narrow Road to the Deep North

A new novel from the Australian author of }Gould's Book Of Fish{ and }The Unknown Terrorist{, this tells the story of one man's reckoning with war and love. Flanagan's fans include Ian McEwan, William Boyd and Geoff Dyer. 'A grand, paradoxical dance that is both macabre and life affirming.' }Sydney Morning HeraldForever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not.In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanagan's epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man's reckoning with the truth.