The Narrow Road To The Deep North Richard Flanagan by Richard Flanagan 9780385352857, 0385352859, B00IHMEAYA instant download after payment.

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.

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.  Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet Basho's travel journal, The Narrow Road To The Deep North is about the impossibility of love. At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943. As the day builds to its horrific climax, Dorrigo Evans battles and fails in his quest to save the lives of his fellow POWs, a man is killed for no reason, and a love story unfolds.

"Flanagan has done something difficult here, creating a character who is at once vivid and shadowy. In his long postwar life, Dorrigo will see his own moments of heroism as if performed by someone else. He fulfills his duty while remaining separate from it, and as a husband and father is most often an absent presence … Flanagan manages these shifts in time and perspective with extraordinary skill. They’re never confusing but they are dizzying, and demand the reader’s full attention in a way that reminds me of Conrad. I suspect that on rereading, this magnificent novel will seem even more intricate, more carefully and beautifully constructed."  -  Michael Gorra, The New York Times Book Review

Richard Flanagan's novels include Death Of A River Guide (1994), The Sound Of One Hand Clapping (1997), Gould’s Book of Fish (2001) - all three of which were short-listed for the Miles Franklin Award  - The Unknown Terrorist 2006), Wanting (2008), and First Person (2017). Each of his novels has attracted major praise and are published in 42 countries