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Historical Fiction · DarkAn Australian surgeon on the Thai-Burma railway looks back on captivity and a lost love
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2013352 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 2014
A surgeon, a prison camp and a love affair
Dorrigo Evans is a doctor in a Japanese prison camp building the Burma Railway in 1943. The book moves between the camp and his later life, in which he is honoured as a war hero but haunted by the war and a love affair. It won the 2014 Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Dorrigo Evans, his fellow prisoners and the Japanese and Korean guards.
World
The Thai-Burma railway camps in 1943, and later Australia.
What makes it different
Flanagan based it partly on his father's experience as a prisoner of war.
Feel
Harrowing and lyrical.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The Narrow Road to the Deep NorthWikipedia