Title The narrow road to the deep north / Richard Flanagan

Published North Sydney, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2014 North Sydney, New South Wales : Vintage book by Random House Australia, 2014 © 2013

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Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'BOOL	827.03 F5837 A6/N 2014		AVAILABLE
MELB	827.03 F5837 A6/N 2014		AVAILABLE
W'PONDS	827.03 F5837 A6/N 2014		AVAILABLE

Description 467 pages ; 20 cm regular print Series A Vintage book Vintage book. Summary August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian 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. 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 Analysis Australian fiction War stories Notes First published: 2013 Winner of the Man Brooker Prize, 2014 Subject Burma-Siam Railroad -- Fiction. Australian fiction. Australian fiction -- 21st century. Prisoners of war -- Burma -- Fiction. Surgeons -- Australia -- Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- Fiction. SUBJECT Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473 Myanmar http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80021691 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form War fiction. Historical fiction War stories. Novels. ISBN 9780857980366

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