The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Richard Flanagan's Man Booker Prize-winning novel follows surgeon Dorrigo Evans as he confronts the horrors of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, where he fights to keep his men alive amid starvation and disease. Haunted by memories of a forbidden love affair from two years before, Evans receives a letter that will irrevocably alter the course of his life. Flanagan explores the brutal division between those who endured the Line and those who never knew its devastation, crafting a powerful meditation on survival, sacrifice, and the lingering wounds of war.