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The Narrow Road to the Deep North


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Historical Fiction,
  • War Fiction,
  • Coming-of-Age
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  • Wartime stories set in Japanese POW camps
  • Characters wrestling with memory, guilt, and forbidden love
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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.

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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