Narrow Road to the Deep North

AvRichard Flanagan

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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 TimesThis 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-03
Mått:130 x 198 x 29 mm
Vikt:323 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Against War
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
ISBN:9781784879860
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Miles Franklin Award 2014 (UK)

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Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger and the Prix du meilleur livre étranger as a novel, and won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author ever to have won both the Booker and Baillie Gifford prizes.A major television series of The Narrow Road to the Deep North is forthcoming, directed by Justin Kurzel and starring Jacob Elordi and Ciarán Hinds.