The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan - ISBN: 9781761620614
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War, love, and survival on the death railway.
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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    480 pages

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    8 September 2026

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Summary

The transformative story of war and love as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series.

August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian 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.

This sa…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761620614
ISBN-10:1761620614
Author:Richard Flanagan
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:8 September 2026
Dimensions:1mm x 1mm x 1mm
About The Author

Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and by the New York Review of Books as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language.’

He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina etranger and the Prix du meilleur livre etranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.

He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize.

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