The Narrow Road to the Deep North

This 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. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, 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. *WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014* ''An unforgettable story of men at war'' The Times This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Richard Flanagan
• Verlag: Vintage UK
• Sprachen: Englisch
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 03.10.2024
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur
• EAN: 9781784879860
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-986-0
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 13 x 20 x 3 cm
• Serie: Vintage War; Against War
• Themen: Japan, Myanmar, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / War & Military, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Australia, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Prisoners of War, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, FICTION / Multiple Timelines, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary