The Narrow Road to the Deep North
by Richard Flanaganliterary work· published 2014
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a love story unfolding over half a century between a doctor and his uncle’s wife. Taking its title from one of the most famous books in Japanese literature, written by the great haiku poet Basho, Flanagan’s novel has as its heart one of the most infamous episodes of Japanese history, the construction of the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in World War II. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. [Source] : http://www.themanbookerprize.com/books/narrow-road-deep-north
Adaptations (1)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North was adapted into a 2025 television series.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North2025 · television series · IMDb ↗IMDb7.2Dorrigo Evans, an Australian surgeon on the Burma Railway during WWII, is haunted by his time as a POW, as well as a forbidden affair he had with his uncle's wife prior to the war.
