The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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In this sweeping historical novel, an Australian doctor named Dorrigo Evans is haunted by a forbidden love affair that spans decades, from the early twentieth century through World War II and beyond. The narrative weaves between Tasmania's rugged landscape, a decaying beachside hotel, and the horrors of a Japanese slave labor camp in 1943, where Evans confronts impossible choices and devastating loss. At its core lies a single, pivotal day in the camp that forces Evans to reckon with the limits of his power to save others and the enduring grip of love across time and tragedy. Drawing its title from Basho's seventeenth-century travel journal, Flanagan's masterwork explores the paradox of love itself—its beauty and its ultimate impossibility. This is a profound meditation on memory, desire, and the ways war and fate reshape human connection.
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paperback
Vintage Books
Published Jan 1, 2013
467 pages
ISBN: 9781741666700
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First Published
2013
Language
eng
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