The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan

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08 April 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Second World War fiction; Historical romance; Australian Fiction

Justin Kurtzel's highly anticipated Australian original series based on Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel is on Prime Video from 18 April 2025. Starring Jacob Elordi, Ciaran Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker.

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

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, cholera and 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.

'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, 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.' Adelaide Advertiser

By: Richard Flanagan
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 342g
ISBN: 9781761357237
ISBN 10: 1761357239
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 08 April 2025
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 Commonwealth Prize for Gould's Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina etranger and the Prix du meilleur livre etranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.