Ten years since he won the Booker, the author reflects on the responsibility he felt when writing The Narrow Road to the Deep North, growing up in a house with almost no books – and his love of translated fiction
Monthly Spotlight: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Monthly Spotlight: The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
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A love story unfolds over half a century, in Richard Flanagan’s epic Booker Prize winning-novel
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the infamous Thailand-Burma Death Railway during World War Two, 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.
The unforgettable story of one man’s reckoning with the truth, The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the Booker Prize in 2014. Born in Tasmania in 1961, Richard Flanagan is a novelist, historian and film director.
From a reading guide and extract to an exclusive interview with the author, find out more about our August Monthly Spotlight here.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Winner of The Booker Prize 2014
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- Chatto & Windus
A love story unfolds over half a century, as Richard Flanagan’s epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one man’s reckoning with the truth