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2014
THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH
Richard Flanagan
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THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH

A novel

by Richard Flanagan

Knopf · 2014

Peak rank

#10

Weeks on list

1

Chart History

#1510152014

1 week on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #10

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. Available now on Prime Video: Justin Kurzel’s highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize–winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciarán Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker. "Magnificent." —The New York Times Book Review "Nothing short of a masterpiece." —Financial Times August, 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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Details

ISBN-13
9780385352864
ISBN-10
0385352867
Published
2014
Pages
411
Publisher
Knopf
Categories
Fiction

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