Richard Flanagan
Paperback | Pages: 467 pages Rating: 4.02 | 45677 Users | 5881 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| Author | : | Richard Flanagan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 467 pages |
| Published | : | September 23rd 2013 by Vintage Australia |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. Cultural. Australia |
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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, from the Changi gallows to a chance meeting of lovers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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.
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| Original Title: | The Narrow Road to the Deep North |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Burma Myanmar Thailand …more Japan Changi(Singapore) Tasmania(Australia) Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) …less |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (2014), Miles Franklin Literary Award Nominee (2014), Prime Minister's |
| Literary Awards: | for Fiction (2014), Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award for Book of the Year & Book of the Year Fiction (2014), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Literary Fiction (2014) Bad Sex in Fiction Award Nominee (2014), The Athens Prize for Literature - Περιοδικό (δέ)κατα (2016), Prix Relay des Voyageurs Nominee (2016), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015), Queensland |
| Literary Awards: | for Fiction Book (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2014), Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2014), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2015), Voss Literary Prize Nominee (2014) |
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The very best books dont just entertain, uplift or educate us. They enfold us in their world and make us step outside of ourselves and become transformed. And sometimes, if were really lucky, they ennoble and affirm us.The Narrow Road to the Deep North is such a book. Once I got past the first 60 or 70 pages, there was no turning back. I turned the last page marveling at Mr. Flanagans skill and agreeing with historian Barbara Tuchman that, Without books, history is silent, literature dumb,There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.Doris Lessing [4.0 stars; updated 8/22/16]This intelligent novel occasionally hits with the force of an emotional powerhouse. It struck me most, telling me a truth that truth cannot tell, in one extended scene that shook me to the core. For those who haven't read this book, I will not spoil it with specifics. Imagine tomorrow, as you run into the market to buy a few things on your way home from work. You notice, 30 meters or yards in the
"I shall be a carrion monster, he whispered into the coral shell of her ear, an organ of women he found unspeakably moving in its soft, whorling vortex, and which always seemed to him to be an invitation to adventure." I guess I'm inviting haters and trolls by reviewing this much-loved Booker Prize winner, but the eye rolls started somewhere halfway through chapter one and they just wouldn't stop.It makes me feel bad saying this about a book which was clearly inspired by the author's father's
From the slurry that are my earliest memories there is a night of pluvial rain out into which my father went. On the road below our house a taxi had come to some form of grief. I remember looking out a window and seeing static car lights. My father came back and reported it was his friend, an old army mate, now cabbie - Ray. In response to my mother's query, he reported that his pal would be okay - given a little time. I knew Ray had been 'on the Railway' during the war, without knowing exactly
This narrative was magnificent on so many levels.The structure - told in present and past. The themes - love, loss, survival, good vs evil. The history - of a railroad being built in the deep jungles of Java. Built by POWs with their bare hands as they staved off disease, starvation and brutal beatings. The character - a man so strong, so broken searching for the meaning in his life. The language - to feel the emotions attached to these characters. Exquisite. Authentic. Undeniably devastating.
I was once lucky enough to meet Canadian artist William Allister, who spent 44 months of his life in a Japanese POW camp. He was beaten, deprived, and threatened with beheading. Amazingly, he survived. He spent decades afterwards consumed by hate and anger for his captors. Later in his life, he came to peace and a place of forgiveness. Much of his art echoes a Japanese influence."HIDEYOSHI: REVISITED" - William Allister, 1998I remember being moved by his story, then. But I really had no idea at
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