Richard FlanaganBlackstone Publishing9780385352857
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From the winner of Australia's National Fiction Prize, author of the hugely acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, comes a magisterial, Rashomon-like novel of love and war that traces the
life of one man from World War II to the present.
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thailand–Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His
life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings—until he receives a letter that will change him forever.
Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of death,
love, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age and prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
An Electric Literature Pick for Books about the Beginning of Countries
From the winner of Australia's National Fiction Prize, author of the hugely acclaimed Gould's Book of Fish, comes a magisterial, Rashomon-like novel of love and war that traces the
life of one man from World War II to the present.
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thailand–Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His
life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings—until he receives a letter that will change him forever.
Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo and his comrades to those of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of death,
love, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age and prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“A grave and lovely novel…Flanagan manages these
shifts in time and perspective with extraordinary skill. They’re never confusing
but they are dizzying and demand the reader’s full attention in a way that
reminds me of Conrad. I suspect that on rereading, this magnificent novel will
seem even more intricate, more carefully and beautifully constructed…A scene in
which Dorrigo tries to cut away a soldier’s gangrenous leg is worthy of Zola…His
language carries a sinewy incantatory power…The
Narrow Road to the Deep North is both unforgiving and generous, a paradox
that should earn it some fame of its own.” —New York Times Book Review
“Some years, very good books win the Man Booker
Prize, but this year a masterpiece has won it…A magnificent novel of love and
war…Written in prose of extraordinary elegance and force, it bridges East and
West, past and present, with a story of guilt and heroism. This is the book
that Richard Flanagan was born to write and which now takes its place in the
canon of world literature.” —A. C. Grayling, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2014
“Flanagan’s portraits of the Australians in this
camp are drawn with heartfelt emotion, showing how these ordinary men cope and
fail to cope with the horrific circumstances of the war and how they draw
sustenance and courage from one another…It is the story of Dorrigo, as one man
among many POWs in the Asian jungle, that is the beating heart of this book: an
excruciating, terrifying, life-altering story that is an indelible fictional
testament to the prisoners there.” —New York Times
“Daring…Captivating…Often unbearably powerful…The Narrow Road to the Deep North [will
draw you] into dark contemplation the way only the most extraordinary books
can. Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The
Road has shaken me like this…This is a classic work of war fiction from a
world-class writer…[There is] a series of blistering episodes you will never
get out of your mind…The prose is as haunting and evocative as the haiku by
seventeenth-century Japanese poet Basho that gives this novel its title. No other
author draws us into ‘the strange, terrible neverendingness of human beings’
the way Flanagan does.” —Washington Post
“I don’t believe I’ve ever said this before, but here is a writer who is a serious contender for the Nobel Prize.” —Alan Cheuse, NPR’s “All Things Considered”
“An extraordinary new novel…Flanagan has written a
sort of Australian War and Peace…After
setting down this eccentric masterwork of a novel, full of deep insight,
afflicted love, and cosmic passion alongside painful, even horrendous
suffering, Flanagan’s music still plays on and on in my head.” —NPR
“The book Richard Flanagan was born to write.” —Economist (London)
“An unforgettable story of men at war…Flanagan’s
prose is richly innovative and captures perfectly the Australian demotic of
tough blokes, with their love of nicknames and excellent swearing. He evokes
Evans’ affair with Amy, and his subsequent soulless wanderings, with an
intensity and beauty that is as poetic as the classical Japanese literature
that peppers this novel.” —Times (London)
“A masterpiece…A symphony of tenderness and love, a
moving and powerful story that captures the weight and breadth of a life…An
extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished
career.” —Guardian (London)
“The stories of these casualties of fate catch at the soul…a haunting story.” —Telegraph (London)
“Immensely moving…Charged with a hypnotic power…Flanagan’s
father was a survivor of the Burma Death Railway. He died on the day this
devastatingly beautiful novel was [finished]. His son could not have done him a
greater honor.” —Sunday Times (London)
“A novel of extraordinary power, deftly told and
hugely affecting. A classic in the making…Takes us deep into the secret heart
of the war…Masterful.” —Observer (London)
“Exhilarating…A huge novel, ambitious, driven, multistranded…[written]
with mordant gusto, lyricism, and astonishing tenacity…With less rhetorical
mannerism than Cormac McCarthy, but an equivalent ability to animate the
specifics of place and time in an operatic sentence, Flanagan gives us a
context, a demotic history for these men who went, hapless, to war…Life affirming.” —Sydney Morning Herald
“Possibly the year’s most beautiful and moving
novel.” —Sunday Canberra Times
“In an already sparkling career, this might be his
biggest, best, most moving work yet.” —Sunday Age (Melbourne)
“Profound…It’s
not just the big characters but also the minor ones who strike their perfect
notes.” —Herald Sun (Melbourne)
“The luminous imagination of Richard Flanagan is
among the most precious of Australian literary treasures.” —Newcastle Herald
“Richard
Flanagan is an extraordinary writer and this sixth novel is a masterpiece…A marvelous
book.” —Australian Women’s Weekly
“Despite the
novel’s epic sprawl it retains the delicate vignettes that characterize
Flanagan’s work, those beautiful brush strokes of poignancy and veracity that
remain in the reader’s mind long afterwards.” —West Australian News
“At its core it
is simply about the human spirit—in all its guises. You emerge from reading
Flanagan, walk out to the veranda into the sunlight, and stand there, changed.” —Courier Mail (Brisbane)
“Nothing could
have prepared us for this immense achievement…The Narrow Road to the Deep
North is beyond comparison…Intensely moving.” —Australian
“A supple meditation on memory, trauma, and empathy that is also a
sublime war novel...Pellucid, epic, and sincerely touching in its treatment
of death, this is a powerful novel.” —Publishers Weekly
“Narrator David Atlas’ performance is true to the
tone and spirit of Flanagan’s account…Atlas perfectly captures the Australian
character as well as conveying the stomach-churning horror of the death camps.” —AudioFile
“Extraordinarily beautiful, intelligent, and sharply insightful…Flanagan handles the horrifyingly grim details of the wartime conditions with lapidary precision and is equally good on the romance of the youthful indiscretion that haunts Evans.” —Booklist
“[A] eulogy to Australia’s servicemen
and the war era…Flanagan is to be lauded for the empathy he shows to both
prisoners and wardens…‘Lest we forget,’ as Kipling put it.” —BookPage
“Winner of the
Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Australian author Flanagan has anticipated writing
this novel much of his life, working on it for twelve years and completing it
on the day his father died. His father had been a survivor of a Japanese POW
camp and the brutal building of the Thai-Burma death railway, famously depicted
in The Bridge on the River Kwai, as
is the protagonist here. In the POW camp, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans
struggles to protect his men, even as he recalls an illicit affair from the past.
A letter from home changes everything, and the story is brought up to the
present day. Reviews from Australia and the UK have been, not surprisingly,
ecstatic.” —Library Journal
“The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a big, magnificent novel of
passion and horror and tragic irony. Its scope, its themes, and its people all
seem to grow richer and deeper in significance with the progress of the
story, as it moves to its extraordinary resolution. It’s by far the best
new novel I’ve read in ages.” —Patrick McGrath, author of Constance
“I loved this
book. Not just a great novel but an important book in its ability to look at
terrible things and create something beautiful. Everyone should read it.” —Evie Wyld, author of All the Birds, Singing
Richard Flanagan is the author of the novels Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and
Wanting. He lives in Tasmania.
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