The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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 Times This 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.

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 Times This 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.

"The Narrow Road to the Deep North" er en smuk, men også barsk, fortælling om den unge kirurg Dorrigo Evans. Evans bærer på en hemmelighed, som plager ham dagligt. Han havde to år tidligere en kærlighedsaffære med sin onkels unge kone. Alt imens kæmper han for at redde mændene under hans kommando fra at dø af sult, kolera og mishandling. Da det hele ser værst ud, modtager han et brev, der kommer til at ændre hans liv for altid. Richard Flanagan modtog for "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" Man Booker Prisen for Fiktion i 2014.

"The Narrow Road to the Deep North" er en smuk, men også barsk, fortælling om den unge kirurg Dorrigo Evans. Evans bærer på en hemmelighed, som plager ham dagligt. Han havde to år tidligere en kærlighedsaffære med sin onkels unge kone. Alt imens kæmper han for at redde mændene under hans kommando fra at dø af sult, kolera og mishandling. Da det hele ser værst ud, modtager han et brev, der kommer til at ændre hans liv for altid. Richard Flanagan modtog for "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" Man Booker Prisen for Fiktion i 2014.