The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Author: Richard Flanagan
A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love.Richard Flanagan’s story — of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle’s wife — journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early twentieth century to a crumbling pre-war beachside hotel, from a Thai jungle prison to a Japanese snow festival, fro….Read More
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