The release date for the English version of 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' by
Richard Flanagan is Sep 2013. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A book about the harshness of conflict, the transience of existence, and the impossibility of love.
The narrative by Richard Flanagan follows Australian doctor Dorrigo Evans, who is plagued by a love affair with his uncle's wife. It takes the reader from the Changi gallows to a chance meeting of lovers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early 20th century to a dilapidated pre-war beachside hotel, and from a Thai jungle prison to a Japanese snow festival.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, a journey diary written by 17th-century haiku poet Basho, is titled after the impossibility of love. It revolves on a single day in August 1943 spent working as a Japanese slave camp. A man is executed senselessly, a love story develops, and Dorrigo Evans struggles and fails in his attempt to save the lives of his fellow POWs as the day intensifies into its horrifying conclusion.