The narrow road to the deep north
A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present
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Surgeons > Fiction. Prisoners of war > Burma > Fiction. Australians > Burma > Fiction. Australia > Fiction. |
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- ISBN: 1483021440
- ISBN: 9781483021447
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Physical Description
sound disc
12 audio discs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher [Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audio, [2014]
- Copyright ℗2014
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact discs. Unabridged. Digitally mastered. Tracks every 3 minutes. All discs in permanent container. GMD: compact disc. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by David Atlas. |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 132.30 |
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Summary
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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.