The narrow road to the deep north / Richard Flanagan.
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TextPublisher: [Sydney, N.S.W.] : Read How You Want, [2014]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: [Large print edition]Description: vi, 557 pages (large print) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781459686434Subject(s): Burma-Siam Railroad -- Fiction | Surgeons -- Australia -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese -- FictionGenre/Form: War stories. | Large type books. DDC classification: A823.3 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 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 love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Large Print | F FLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 28/05/2024 | 31111055062994 |
Regular print edition published: North Sydney, Vintage, 2013.
August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai - Burma Death Railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his 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 love, death, and family, exploring the many forms of good and evil, war and truth, guilt and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
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