The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan

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Penguin Random House Australia
12 April 2023

Second World War fiction; Australian Fiction

"'A masterpiece . . . The Narrow Road is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career.' - Michael Williams, The Guardian

A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.

August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian 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 savagely beautiful novel 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.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a big, magnificent novel of passion and horror and tragic irony. Its scope, its themes and its people all seem to grow richer and deeper in significance with the progress of the story, as it moves to its extraordinary resolution. It's by far the best new novel I've read in ages.' - Patrick McGarth

'Beyond comparison . . . an immense achievement . . . Wilfred Owen wrote of his Great War verse- ""My subject is war, and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity."" Flanagan's triumph is to find poetry without any pity at all.' - Geordie Williamson, The Australian

'A story of war and star-crossed lovers, the novel is also a profound meditation on life and time, memory and forgetting . . . a magnificent achievement.' - Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser"

By: Richard Flanagan
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 324g
ISBN: 9781761048142
ISBN 10: 1761048147
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 12 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as 'one of our greatest living novelists' and as 'among the most versatile writers in the English language' by the New York Review of Books. He won the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould's Book of Fish. His most recent book is Question 7.