The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Discover the Booker prize-winning masterpiece

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Product ID:	9780099593584
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Title:	The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Subtitle:	Discover the Booker prize-winning masterpiece
Authors:	Author: Richard Flanagan
Page Count:	464
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Description:	Select Guide Rating 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. *WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014* Forever 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. This is a story about 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.
Imprint Name:	Vintage
Publisher Name:	Vintage Publishing
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2015-03-26

Weight	326 g
Dimensions	198 × 129 × 29 mm