![]() World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese - Fiction. As the day builds to its horrific climax, Dorrigo Evans battles and fails in his quest to save the lives of his fellow POWs, a man is killed for no reason, and a love story unfolds. As the day builds to its horrific climax, Dorrigo Evans battles and fails in his quest to save the lives of his fellow POWs, a man is. ![]() At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943. At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943. Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet Basho's travel journal, The Narrow Road to the Deep North is about the impossibility of love. Taking its title from 17th-century haiku poet Basho's travel journal, The Narrow Road To The Deep North is about the impossibility of love. What would you do if you saw the love of your life, whom you thought dead for a quarter of a century, walking towards you? Richard Flanagan's story, of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle's wife, journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early twentieth century to a crumbling pre-war beachside hotel from a Thai jungle prison to a Japanese snow festival from the Changi gallows to a chance meeting of lovers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. ![]()
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