The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Richard Flanagan
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present."Magnificent." —The New York Times Book Review "Nothing short of a masterpiece." —Financial TimesAugust, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever.A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, of truth and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
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Author
Richard Flanagan
Pages
352
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2014-08-12
ISBN
0385352867 9780385352864
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"I am having a hard time rating this one, as I also had a hard time reading it. There were parts that dragged tediously and pointlessly on, especially the weird romance parts, which I honestly thought was truly awful. Then there were parts that were so graphically gruesome that I really could have gone my entire life without ever knowing. This is a pessimistic book and presents a pessimistic view of humanity. However, it is a story that needs to be told and remembered and there were parts that were exceptionally written. I just am going to have to let this one sit for awhile and I need something fluffy to recover. I have been reading several WWII books fairly recently, "Unbroken," "All the Light We Cannot See," and "The Nightingale." My best comparison to those other books is that they still present with something hopeful at the end, whereas this book remains dark. It reminds me of the difference between Viktor Frankl's and Elie Wiesel's works about the Holocaust."
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Rebekah Travis
"The first 3rd was "The English Patient". The middle 3rd was the most harrowing thing I have ever read. The last 3rd of this long book could have been an email."
John Woakes
