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Winner ofthe Man Booker Prize

Nothing since Cormac McCarthys The Road has shaken me like this The Washington Post

In The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flanagan displays the gifts that have made him one of the most acclaimed writers of contemporary fiction Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to presentday Australia from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards this savagely beautiful novel tells a story of 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