![]() His other books include Toxic, which lifted the lid on the disturbing nature of Tasmania's salmon industry, and Wanting. In 2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North was awarded the Booker Prize, making Flanagan the third Australian to ever win the prize. Then he receives a letter that changes his life. The narrative follows an Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans at a particularly low moment he's struggling to save the men under his command from cholera, from starvation, from beatings, and at the same time, he himself is haunted by the love affair he was enmeshed in two years earlier with his uncle's wife. ![]() ![]() What is The Narrow Road to the Deep North about?įor those unfamiliar with the novel, it's set in a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway in August 1943. ![]()
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