Richard Flanagan: Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan talks with Harriet Gilbert and the WBC audience about his Man Booker Prize-winning novel.
Best-selling Australian writer Richard Flanagan talks about his Booker prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
This unforgettable novel about the cruelty of war and the tenuousness of love and life tells the story of captive Australian soldiers forced into hard labour, working on the Burmese railway during and after World War Two. At its heart is one day in a Japanese slave labour camp in August 1943 which builds to a horrific climax as surgeon Dorrigo Evans battles and too often fails in his quest to save the lives of his fellow POWs.
(Photo: Writer Richard Flanagan. Credit: Joel Saget)
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